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Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament in a Polycentric World
- Authors: Arbatov A.G1
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Affiliations:
- Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 5 (126) (2024)
- Pages: 5-20
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0201-7083/article/view/271013
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0201708324050012
- ID: 271013
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Abstract
The experience of 60 years of nuclear arms control has been quite a success except one aspect – transition from a bilateral (the U.S.A. ‒ U.S.S.R/Russia) to a multilateral format of limitation and reduction of nuclear arsenals. The reason has been a mistaken approach to a multi-lateral disarmament, which did not take into account a specific nature of multilateral nuclear deterrence among nuclear states. From now on, a transition to a multilateral format is becoming an indispensable condition for rescue of the system of nuclear disarmament and its adjustment to a polycentric world order, so that it does not turn into a nuclear chaos.
About the authors
A. G Arbatov
Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: alarbatov@gmail.com
Doctor of Sciences (History), Head of the Center for International Security Moscow, Russia
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