International studies, Vol. VI No. 3, 2006.
Original scientific paper
Nuclear Weapons in the Post Cold War World
Radovan Vukadinović
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
After the year 1990 some events in the international relations have demonstrated that nuclear weapons still remain important without any talks about their elimination or even marginalization. USA remained the only world super power but also other countries possessing nuclear weapons didn't consider giving up their own nuclear armaments. There was a huge debate related to the new attitude toward nuclear weapons which were proved as irreplaceable instruments of power as well as determinants of the countries place in the international relations. In the post-Cold War period, nuclear weapons haven't been as important as before but it is impossible to describe them as irrelevant in the terms of primate, deterrence, threat, blackmail or even possible negotiation instrument. Nuclear strategies, although there are not exclusively related to the two super powers and their two blocks any
more, are still developing, because of the qualitative improvement of the nuclear weapons and actor increasing.
Keywords
nuclear weapons; post-Cold War international relations; USA; nuclear strategies; proliferation; crisis focus
Hrčak ID:
291113
URI
Publication date:
30.9.2006.
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