NUCLEAR ETHICS IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY – THOMAS E.DOYLE II

This book presents a complex ethical (re)assessment of the continued reliance by some states on nuclear weapons as instruments of state power. The (re)assessment is increasingly urgent given the recent intensification of great‑power conflict dynamics and nuclear‑weapon states’ recommitments to modernising, augmenting, or tailoring their nuclear forces to address vital state and alliance interests. Especially since the beginning of the administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, these recommitments have accelerated the degree to which the political and moral dilemmas surrounding the threat of nuclear use define and intensify existential risks for specific states and for the international community at large.

To execute this (re)assessment, the book details how strategic, political, legal, and moral reasoning are deeply intertwined on questions of vital state and global values. Its ontological assumptions are drawn from a broadly construed IR constructivist stance, and its epistemological approach applies non‑ideal moral principles informed by Kantian thought to selected problems of nuclear‑armed security competition as they have evolved since President Barack Obama’s 2009 Prague Declaration. This non‑ideal moral approach is committed to the view that the dual imperatives of humanity’s survival and the common security of states require an international order that privileges considerations of justice over power‑political considerations. It is presented as a necessary element of theorising a set of practices to effectively address the challenges and dilemmas of reordering international politics in terms of justice.

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