Overview
Academic research on the origins, the development, and the status of Nuclear and Non-Proliferation-related movements has often focused on the roles of the Great Powers on both sides of the iron curtain, whose signatures became the centerpiece for the success of the NPT-regime. What has repeatedly been overlooked is the role of other states that were also influenced by nuclear questions but tried to distance themselves from the block mentality. Neutral and Nonaligned countries (“N+N States”) are usually not included in the systematic analysis of Global Nuclear History. Despite, for example, that the UN-initiative for the NPT came from Ireland, that the treaty was mostly negotiated in Switzerland, and that the first signatory was Finland, the N+N states have never received much attention neither for their role in the treaty process nor in the developments after that.
This conference will fill the void. In collaboration with the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo), Waseda University (Tokyo), and the Institute for Policy Research at the Catholic University of America (Washington DC), we call upon researchers from all disciplines to participate in a two-day venue in Tokyo, Japan. The conference will bring together insights about the Nuclear Histories of the N+N states in general, and their engagement with the NPT in particular, since the 1950s until today. We welcome research in all areas, especially Cold War History, Diplomatic History, Nuclear History, Security Studies, and Neutrality Studies.
Panel 1: Neutrality, Nonalignment, and Non-Proliferation
(Saturday 11:00 – 12:45)
Name |
Topic |
Yoko Iwama |
Chair |
Chihaya Kokubo |
Discussant |
Jonathan Hunt |
Between colonialism and community: Neutral and Nonaligned Nations in the Making of a Postcolonial Nuclear Order |
Pascal Lottaz |
The 'Neutral Idea' after the Second World War |
Leyatt Betre |
The Nonaligned Movement and Nuclear Dissarmament |
Herbert Reginbogin |
European Neutrals and Nuclear Non-Proliferation |
Panel 2: European Neutrals & Non-Proliferation I
(14:15 – 16:00)
Name |
Topic |
Akira Kurosaki |
Chair |
Shingo Yoshida |
Discussant |
John Noble |
Casaroli and the Kremlin: Contextualizing the Holy See's Accession to the NPT |
Yuji Suzuki |
Pressure on nuclear states. The Proposal for a Non-Atom Club and Swedish Diplomatic Effort for the Creation of the NPT Regime |
Ken Shimizu |
Swedish Security Strategy during the Cold War – The Soviet Threat and Cooperation with Western countries |
Thomas Jonter |
Sweden and the Bomb: From Nuclear Acquisition to Nuclear Disarmament |
Panel 3: European Neutrals & Non-Proliferation II
(16:30 – 18:15)
Name |
Topic |
Pascal Lottaz |
Chair |
Hiromu Arakaki |
Discussant |
Benno Zogg and Andreas Wenger |
Switzerland and the Bomb |
Heinz Gaertner |
Austria, the Neutrals, and the way from NPT to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons |
Marko Miljkovic |
A Love and Hate Relationship: Yugoslavia and the NPT |
Panel 4: Africa, NAM, and Non-Proliferation
(Sunday 9:00 – 10:45)
Name |
Position/Speaker's Topic |
Shinsuke Tomotsugu |
Chair |
Mervyn O'Driscoll |
Discussant |
Anna-Mart van Wyk |
South Africa and the NPT |
Robin Moeser |
Unlikely supporters of non-proliferation: Apartheid South Africa's impact on the NPT and the African-wide Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, 1988-91 |
Panel 5: South Asia, NAM, and Non-Proliferation
(11:15 – 13:00)
Name |
Position/Speaker's Topic |
Masakatsu Ota |
Chair |
Hiroyuki Kobayashi |
Discussant |
Joshi Yogesh |
India and the NPT: Hostile Opposition of Grudging Acceptance |
Kanica Rakhra |
India's Role in NAM and the NPT |
Nidhi Parasad |
India and Japan: Nuclear Choices and International Security |
Panel 6: NAM-Observers, NAM-Outsiders, and Non-Proliferation
(14:15 – 16:00)
Name |
Position/Speaker's Topic |
Tsuyoshi Goroku |
Chair |
Shu'ichi Kawashima |
Discussant |
Carlo Patti |
Brazil, Neutrality and the Non-Proliferation Regime (1962-1968) |
Andrey Edemskiy |
Neutrals and the Soviet resumption of nuclear tests in 1961: between trust and supspicion (1960-1961) |
Mariana Budjeryn |
Neutrality, Security, and the Bomb: Lessons from Ukraine |
Exequiel Lacovsky |
The Tlatelolco Treaty: A model for export? |
Panel 7: East Asia and Non-Proliferation
(16:30 – 18:15)
Name |
Position/Speaker's Topic |
Herbert Reginbogin |
Chair |
Thomas Jonter |
Discussant |
Xin Zhan |
Partial Participation: China and the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime (1978-1992) |
Yoko Iwama |
Japan and the enlargement of Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament |
Yu Takeda |
Japan on the Fault line: Confrontation between Nuclear suppliers and N+N States at the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation, 1977-1980 |
Organizing Committee
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Conference Director
Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (Tokyo) Oktay Kurtulus
Conference Secretary
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo) |
Yoko Iwama
Conference Co-Director
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo) |
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