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- On Nuclear Weapons: Essays by Richard Falk on Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament
- On Nuclear Weapons: Essays by Richard Falk on Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword by Zia Mian
- Preface by Richard Falk
- Acknowledgments
- Part I International Law and World Order
- Part II Impacts of Democracy, Neutrality, and National Interest
- Contents
- 7 Nuclear Weapons and the End of Democracy
- 8 Nuclear Weapons and the Renewal of Democracy
- 9 Neutrality, International Law, and the Nuclear Arms Race
- 10 Nuclearism and National Interest
- 11 A Radical World Order Challenge
- Part III Nuclear Policy Initiatives
- Part IV Remembering the Past, Encountering the Future
- Index
- References
11 - A Radical World Order Challenge
Addressing Global Climate Change and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons
from Part II - Impacts of Democracy, Neutrality, and National Interest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2019
- On Nuclear Weapons: Essays by Richard Falk on Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament
- On Nuclear Weapons: Essays by Richard Falk on Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword by Zia Mian
- Preface by Richard Falk
- Acknowledgments
- Part I International Law and World Order
- Part II Impacts of Democracy, Neutrality, and National Interest
- Contents
- 7 Nuclear Weapons and the End of Democracy
- 8 Nuclear Weapons and the Renewal of Democracy
- 9 Neutrality, International Law, and the Nuclear Arms Race
- 10 Nuclearism and National Interest
- 11 A Radical World Order Challenge
- Part III Nuclear Policy Initiatives
- Part IV Remembering the Past, Encountering the Future
- Index
- References
Summary
The very character of world order, which served elites well during the modernizing and colonizing project initially in Europe, and then after decolonization hyperdevelopment in Asia, is now dysfunctional so far as serving fundamental human needs is concerned. The problematic character of a world order premised on the interplay of territorial sovereignty and hegemonic geopolitics (that is, its horizontal juridical aspect of the equality of states, and its vertical political aspect of control exerted by the leading state acts) is unable to address in satisfactory fashion any of humanity’s most urgent challenges: climate change, nuclear weaponry, global poverty, unregulated world economy, pandemics, genetic engineering.
Reduced to fundamentals, the deficiencies of world order can be summarized as the fragmenting of a unified approach to problem-solving by allowing unevenly situated states to pursue their distinct national interests at the expense of the overall human interest.
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- On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and DisarmamentSelected Writings of Richard Falk, pp. 198 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019