Bericht

After the review conference: The NPT remains robust

Originally scheduled for 2020, the 10th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) had to be deferred four times. It was not until August 2022 that the 191 NPT states finally met. At least since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, observers had expected that the delegates would be unable to agree on a Final Document. Surprisingly, differences over nuclear disarmament did not play a role in the failure of the conference, despite the growing polarization over this issue since the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) at the beginning of 2021. Russia alone was responsible for torpedoing the consensus. Conversely, all the non-nuclear NPT parties made major concessions in a bid to prevent the conference from failing. This shows that in a context of global tensions, nuclear disarmament is a lesser concern for the non-nuclear-weapon states (NNWS) than they themselves have long been suggesting. That the stability of the NPT does not depend on progress towards disarmament is good news. For Germany's National Security Strategy (NSS), it means that greater concessions to advocates of the TPNW are not necessary to protect the NPT.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SWP Comment ; No. 69/2022

Klassifikation
Politik
Thema
Nuklearer Nichtverbreitungsvertrag
Vertrag über die Nichtverbreitung von Kernwaffen
Atomwaffensperrvertrag
NVV
Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
NPT
"Nuclear Ban Treaty"
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
TPNW
Nationale Sicherheitsstrategie
NSS
Atomwaffen
Kernwaffen
atomare Abrüstung
nukleare Abrüstung
nukleare Abschreckung
Nato
Ukraine-Krieg
Ukrainekrieg
regelbasierte internationale Ordnung
nukleare Normen
nukleare Ordnung
Kernkraftwerk Saporischschja
Atomwaffenverzicht
Mittelmächte
Proliferation
Nonproliferation
Nichtverbreitung

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Schneider, Jonas
Horovitz, Liviu
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.18449/2022C69
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Bericht

Beteiligte

  • Schneider, Jonas
  • Horovitz, Liviu
  • Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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