09.12.2025 - 15:49:14

VeSPoTec

New Article by Leonardo Bandarra and Carmen Wunderlich

Why and how do states establish nuclear-weapon-free or nuclear-deterrence-based security orders? This article examines the dynamics that influence states’decisions to accept or reject nuclear deterrence with a focus on regional contexts in the Global South. For that, Bandarra and Wunderlich explore how a mindset of mutual trust among elites can ground stable nuclear-weapon-free security orders, in contrast to the mindset of dominating mistrust that prevails in nuclear-deterrence-based security orders.