Zbrojenia i kontrola zbrojeń w 2023 roku: powrót do nuklearnego stanu natury
Armaments and arms control in 2023: Return to a nuclear state of nature

Summary/Abstract: In 2023 Russia suspended its participation in the New START treaty. This has several implications for international security as another stage in the process of erosion of the arms control legal-institutional architecture. For the first time since the 1980s, no bilateral treaty regulates American and Russian nuclear weapon stockpiles. Since the liberal international order turns towards power politics, both of these nuclear powers might feel enabled to build up their capabilities of this kind without major restrictions. Furthermore, Russia continues undermining international arms control regimes by its withdrawal from the CFE treaty and “de-ratification” of the CTBT treaty. Besides the vertical proliferation, there are also persistent challenges regarding its horizontal dimension, as Iran and North Korea pursue their nuclear programmes. The chapter aims thus to explain the meaning of these developments for international security as well as interpret their main implications.

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