Sanctions for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Armend Bekaj is a researcher at Working Group 2 on International Measures for Compliance to Nuclear Disarmament Regimes at Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC), Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR), Uppsala University, Sweden. He combines academic and policy experience on peace and conflict and democracy and autocracy, with a focus on sanctions and nuclear disarmament/non-proliferation. Peter Wallensteen is Dag Hammarskjöld Professor Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor Emeritus at Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. He served as the first Head of the Uppsala Department of Peace and Conflict Research and now leads AMC’s Working Group on International Measures for Compliance to Nuclear Disarmament Regimes.

Introduction. 1.The Promise of Sanctions for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Part I: General Observations on International Sanctions. 2.Incentivizing Non-proliferation: Theory, Policy, and Experience. 3.Sanctions as Tools to Achieve Nuclear Reduction Policy: Is there a Better Way Forward? 4.The EU’s Use of Sanctions in Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control. 5.Latin America and the Caribbean: a Tradition of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation. Part II: The Use of Sanctions for Nuclear Arms Control and Non-proliferation. 6.Constrain, Coerce and Deter: Non-proliferation Sanctions against India and China. 7.Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions. 8.The Utility of Sanctions on Non-proliferation: Iran’s Nuclear Programme. 9.Liberation Movements, Sanctions, and Nuclear Disarmament: the African National Congress and apartheid South Africa. 10.The Federal Republic of Germany and the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Did Sanctions Have an Effect? Conclusion. 11.Sanctions and Non-Proliferation: Where We Are and Where We Should Go.