AJIL Webinar: The Law and Politics of Nuclear Weapons

 

The threat of nuclear war appears to be growing. Iran’s enhanced nuclear capacities, escalating hostilities in the Middle East, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, threats by various countries to resume nuclear testing, developments on the Korean Peninsula and a host of other events have led some to argue that the threat is greater today than at any time since the end of World War II. This webinar explores the global security architecture and shifting geopolitics to identify if and why the risk of nuclear conflict has increased. It also evaluates the role of international law in reducing that risk. International law imposes a wide variety of constraints on the production, testing, and use of nuclear weapons, through the laws of war, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, various disarmament treaties, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The discussion will probe the effectiveness of these instruments, the questions of international law that remain unresolved by them, and the trajectory of nuclear disarmament in light of changes to the global international order. 

November 12th

4:00 - 5:00pm EST

Click here to watch the webinar recording.

Speakers:

Anna Hood

University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, Faculty of Law

Ankit Panda

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Stanton Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

Nina Tannenwald

Brown University, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science

 

Moderator: 

Monica Hakimi

Co-Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of International Law