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Kantian Theory, Nuclear Weapons, and Coercive Anti-Proliferation
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Franceschet, Antonio | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-07T01:32:07Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-07T01:32:07Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013-11 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol.1 No.2, pp. 139-155 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2288-2693 (print) | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2288-2707 (online) | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10371/90855 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the issue of coercively preventing states from acquiring and possessing nuclear weapons. In questioning whether such coercion is morally legitimate, I argue that Immanuel Kants (1724-1804) political theory contains important resources compared with three rival perspectives: Realpolitik, the Just War Tradition, and Deontological Pacifism. I also argue that coercive anti-proliferation measures are conditionally legitimated by three distinctive Kantian concepts: First, his concept of International Justice allows for coercion against genuinely aggressive states engaged in nuclear aspiration. Second, given the imperfections of international justice institutions, his concept of a State of Peoples—an authorized global governance body—seems to provide a better guarantee of just forms of coercive nuclear anti-proliferation. Third, supplementing the first two concepts, Kant discusses a Cosmopolitan Right to share the earths surface. This concept justifies coercive anti-proliferation when a peoples right to existence as citizens of the earth is threatened by nuclear weapons. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | The Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University | - |
dc.subject | Kant | - |
dc.subject | nuclear weapons | - |
dc.subject | proliferation | - |
dc.subject | coercion | - |
dc.subject | justice | - |
dc.subject | cosmopolitanism | - |
dc.title | Kantian Theory, Nuclear Weapons, and Coercive Anti-Proliferation | - |
dc.type | SNU Journal | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.18588/201311.000010 | - |
dc.citation.journaltitle | Asian Journal of Peacebuilding | - |
dc.citation.endpage | 155 | - |
dc.citation.number | 2 | - |
dc.citation.pages | 139-155 | - |
dc.citation.startpage | 139 | - |
dc.citation.volume | 1 | - |
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