Book Review of The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Author(s): Stephen Herzog
Journal Title: Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
Publication Year: 2023

CSS' Stephen Herzog reviews Rebecca Davis Gibbons' 2022 Cornell University Press book titled The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime. He concludes that the book could be a key educational resource for understanding the formation and promotion of the global nuclear order. Two natural questions are also raised by the book. First, how will the nonproliferation regime cope with Russia's war on Ukraine and its implications for the global nuclear order? Second, can the relatively new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons be successful if the hegemon continues to oppose it?

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