This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies based on nuclear weapons for the Northeast Asian region.
Northeast Asian governments and populations feel less secure than ever, and the governments of the USA, Russia, China and North Korea are all expending considerable resources on increasing their nuclear arsenals. This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies dependent on threats to use nuclear weapons and demonstrations of the resolve to use them in a war. Those alternatives are grounded in the well-established concept of common security. The long-term goal of these alternatives is the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Northeast Asia. This book demonstrates that lessons learned during the creation of existing nuclear-weapon-free zones can be successfully adapted, using the proposed alternatives to nuclear threats, to the considerably more challenging circumstances that exist in contemporary Northeast Asia. More importantly, it makes the case that the mere process of pursuing this objective, even if the goal is not realized for many decades, would help facilitate regional risk-reduction measures and global nuclear arms control measures that could lead, in the long term, to the general and complete disarmament promised by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) of 2021.
This book will be of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, Asian security, foreign policy and International Relations.
This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies based on nuclear weapons for the Northeast Asian region.
Part I: Introduction
Chapter
1. An Opening for Regional
Denuclearization: Executive Introduction Part II: Connecting Past Practice to
Current Problems
Chapter
2. The US-China Competition Is Going Nuclear:
Deadlock on Thin Ice
Chapter
3. A Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast
Asia: From a Japanese Security Perspective
Chapter
4. Changing Security
Dynamics in the Korean Peninsula: Rising Strategic Competition, Destabilizing
Balance of Terror
Chapter
5. The Mongolian Miracle: From Buffer to Beacon
Part III: The Path to Denuclearization: Risk Reduction through Common
Security
Chapter
6. Revisiting the Comprehensive Security Roadmap To Reduce
the Risk of War on the Korean Peninsula
Chapter
7. Reconsidering Extended
Nuclear Deterrence: Inherent Flaws Within
Chapter
8. Rationale for a NWFZ in
Northeast Asia Leading to Global Nuclear Disarmament: A Viewpoint from
International Law
Chapter 9: Getting to Zero in Korea: Weathered Carriage on
a Viable Path
Chapter
10. Civil Society Initiatives for Establishing a
Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: Focusing on Debates in the Japanese
Diet Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter
11. Toward a Secure Northeast Asia without
Nuclear Weapons: Proposing NWFZ 2.0 and a C3 Security Regime
Gregory Kulacki is the East Asia Project Director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, USA, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition at Nagasaki University, Japan.
Keiko Nakamura is an Associate Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Japan.
Jae-Jung Suh is Professor of International Relations at International Christian University, Japan and author and editor of several books on security in Northeast Asia and Korea.
Tatsujiro Suzuki is a Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Japan. Before joining RECNA, he served as Vice Chairman of Japan Atomic Energy Commission from 2010 to 2014. He is the author of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power (2017).
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