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2019 International Conference in Tokyo



The international conference on "The Neutrals and the Bomb: Neutral and Nonaligned States and Non-Proliferation" held on 14-15 December 2019 in Tokyo. You can find the details about panels and the papers presented down below. The presentations that are available can be downloaded by clicking on the titles.

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Keynote Speech
Mervyn O'Driscoll
Frank Aiken, the Irish, and the NPT
Panel 1
Neutrality, Nonalignment, and Non-proliferation
Chair
Yoko Iwama
Discussant
Chihaya Kokubo
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Speakers
Jonathan Hunt
Between colonialism and community: Neutral and Nonaligned Nations in the Making of a Postcolonial Nuclear Order
Pascal Lottaz
The ‘Neutral Idea’ after the Second World War
Leyatt Betre
The Nonaligned Movement and Nuclear Disarmament
Herbert Reginbogin
European Neutrals and Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Panel 2
European Neutrals and Non-Proliferation I
Chair
Akira Kurosaki
Discussant
Shingo Yoshida
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Speakers
John Noble
(Online Participation)
Casaroli and the Kremlin: Contextualizing the Holy See's Accession to the NPT
Yuji Suzuki
Pressures on nuclear states. The Proposal for a Non-Atom Club and Swedish Diplomatic Effort for the Creation of the NPT Regime
Ken Shimizu
Swedish Security Strategy during the Cold War – The Soviet Threat and Cooperation with Western countries
Thomas Jonter
Sweden and the Bomb: From Nuclear Acquisition to Nuclear Disarmament
Panel 3
European Neutrals and Non-Proliferation II
Chair
Pascal Lottaz
Discussant
Hiromu Arakaki
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Speakers
Benno Zogg, (co-ed w. Andreas Wenger)
Switzerland and the Bomb
Heinz Gaertner
Austria, the Neutrals, and the way from the NPT to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Marko Miljković
A Love and Hate Relationship: Yugoslavia and the NPT
Panel 4
Africa, NAM, and Non-proliferation
Chair
Shinsuke Tomotsugu
Discussant
Mervyn O'Driscoll
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Speakers
Anna-Mart van Wyk
South Africa and the NPT
Robin Moeser
Unlikely supporters of non-proliferation: Apartheid South Africa’s impact on the NPT and the African-wide Nuclear Weapons Free Zone, 1988-91
Hassan Elbahtimy
Egypt, NAM, and the NPT
Panel 5
South Asia, NAM, and Non-proliferation
Chair&Discussant
Masakatsu Ota
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Speakers
Nidhi Parasad
India and Japan: Nuclear Choices and International Security
Joshi Yogesh
India and the NPT: Hostile Opposition or Grudging Acceptance
Kanica Rakhra
(Online Participation)
India’s Role in NAM and the NPT
Panel 6
NAM-Observers, NAM-Outsiders, and Non-proliferation
Chair&Discussant
Tsuyoshi Goroku
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Speakers
Carlo Patti
Brazil, Neutrality and the Non-Proliferation Regime (1962-1968)
Andrey Edemskiy
Neutrals and the Soviet resumption of nuclear tests in 1961: between trust and suspicion (1960-1961)
Mariana Budjeryn
Neutrality, Security, and the Bomb: Lessons from Ukraine
Exequiel Lacovsky
The Tlatelolco Treaty: A model for export?
Panel 7
East Asia and Non-proliferation
Chair&Discussant
Pascal Lottaz
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Speakers
Xin Zhan
Partial Participation: China and the International Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime (1978-1992)
Yoko Iwama
Japan and the enlargement of Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament
Yu Takeda
Japan on the Fault line: Confrontation between Nuclear suppliers and N+N States at the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation, 1977-1980
About the Conference

One of the gravest issues facing the international community today remains the problem of how to live with the most destructive weapon mankind has ever invented. With recent advancements in technology, and some of the Cold War arms control agreements crumbling—like the INF treaty—we could be at the threshold of a new nuclear age. It is therefore even more important to understand one of the central agreements of the nuclear order we currently live in. The regulation of nuclear technology through the “Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons” (NPT) was a landmark agreement during the Cold War, which has shown unexpected longevity. With a total of 191 signatory states, and remarkable success in halting the spread of the deadliest weapon systems known to humanity, the NPT was—and still is—one of the most essential features of the global security architecture.

Academic research on the origins, the development, and the status of Nuclear and Non-Proliferation-related movements has often focused on the roles of the Great Powers on both sides of the iron curtain, whose signatures became the centerpiece for the success of the NPT-regime. What has repeatedly been overlooked is the role of other states that were also influenced by nuclear questions but tried to distance themselves from the block mentality. Neutral and Nonaligned countries (“N+N States”) are usually not included in the systematic analysis of Global Nuclear History. Despite, for example, that the UN-initiative for the NPT came from Ireland, that the treaty was mostly negotiated in Switzerland, and that the first signatory was Finland, the N+N states have never received much attention neither for their role in the treaty process nor in the developments after that.

In collaboration with the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Tokyo) and Waseda University (Tokyo) we called upon researchers from all disciplines to participate in a two-day venue in Tokyo, Japan. The conference brought together insights about the Nuclear Histories of the N+N states in general, and their engagement with the NPT in particular, since the 1950s until today. 


Organizing Committee

Co-Director:                    Dr. Pascal Lottaz, Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies, Tokyo
Co-Director:                    Dr. Yoko Iwama, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo

Secretary:                        Oktay Kurtulus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo
Associate:                        Dr. Herbert R. Reginbogin, Fellow at Catholic University of America
 All inquiries should be directed to: conference@nptresearch.org

Supported by
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo
Waseda University, Waseda Institute for Advanced Studies (WIAS), Tokyo
Catholic University of America (CUA), Washington DC — Permanent Neutrality Working Group
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