Nuclear Deterrence and Disarmament in a Polycentric World

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Abstract

The experience of 60 years of nuclear arms control has been quite a success except one aspect – transition from a bilateral (the U.S.A. ‒ U.S.S.R/Russia) to a multilateral format of limitation and reduction of nuclear arsenals. The reason has been a mistaken approach to a multi-lateral disarmament, which did not take into account a specific nature of multilateral nuclear deterrence among nuclear states. From now on, a transition to a multilateral format is becoming an indispensable condition for rescue of the system of nuclear disarmament and its adjustment to a polycentric world order, so that it does not turn into a nuclear chaos.

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A. G Arbatov

Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: alarbatov@gmail.com
Doctor of Sciences (History), Head of the Center for International Security Moscow, Russia

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