What is “Strategic Stability?” Is it still relevant, and what are its most serious challenges in the 21st century? These are the overarching questions in a new special issue, guest-edited by Dr. Ulrich Kühn, of the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.
In his introduction, Ulrich Kühn argues, that strategic stability is not only conceptually fuzzy but nuclear multipolarity, novel technologies, an exacerbating crisis in arms control, and a growing acceptance of “softer” norms are all taking a toll. At the same time, nuclear weapon states are concerned with possible instability to a degree not seen since the most severe crises of the Cold War. It is time, the author argues, to clarify some of the profound challenges to strategic stability & offer novel scholarly as well as policy-relevant approaches.
Besides the introduction, the special issues comprise four articles:
The special issue of the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Volume 6 (1) was published under an open-access license. You can find the special issue here.
