An Arctic Nuclear Weapons Free Zone – In Search of a Security Architecture for the Arctic ...

• Main Author: MacDonald, Alexander
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Arts 2021
• Subjects: Arctic, nuclear-weapon-free zone, disarmament, non-proliferation, confidence building measures, intermediary arms control measures; Political Science; FOS Political science; Arctic; Axworthy
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/38937; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/113515

This study seeks to determine why proposals for Arctic nuclear-weapon-free zones (ANWFZ) have thus far failed to come to fruition. In reviewing and analyzing the ANWFZ proposals made by Rich and Vinograndov, Newcombe, Wilkes and Axworthy, which span a time frame of 1964 to 2012, three variables are...