Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order
Shampa Biswas
Abstract
This book is an analysis of the complex but hierarchical global nuclear order produced, maintained, and obscured by the workings of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime. Using an analysis heavily influenced by postcolonial International Relations theory, the book examines the interstate inequalities that sustain this order, the mechanisms that produce a (mimetic) desire for nuclear weapons, the neoliberal interests that drive the production of nuclear power, and the communities and bodies made vulnerable by nuclear pursuits. Making a case for nuclear abolition, the book suggests that the path ... More
This book is an analysis of the complex but hierarchical global nuclear order produced, maintained, and obscured by the workings of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime. Using an analysis heavily influenced by postcolonial International Relations theory, the book examines the interstate inequalities that sustain this order, the mechanisms that produce a (mimetic) desire for nuclear weapons, the neoliberal interests that drive the production of nuclear power, and the communities and bodies made vulnerable by nuclear pursuits. Making a case for nuclear abolition, the book suggests that the path to nuclear zero is more effectively traversed through the political economy of injustice rather than the prism of “security”. This book is unique in bringing a Postcolonial approach to the study of the global nuclear order. The book is aimed primarily at scholars and students of International Relations (IR). In terms of its academic genealogy, it is situated within two areas in IR – Postcolonial International Relations and Critical Security Studies.
Keywords:
Nuclear,
Non-proliferation,
Postcolonialism,
Hierarchy,
Inequality,
Third world,
Power,
Order,
Security,
Justice
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816680979 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816680979.001.0001 |
