Evening Extra: Contested Nuclear Taboo in the Third Nuclear Age

Over the past decade, there have been growing concerns that the renewed great power competition and the increasing salience of nuclear weapons in world politics could eventually lead to the erosion of the international norm against the use of nuclear weapons – the “nuclear taboo.” Join students and faculty with the Department of Political Science to hear Prof. Michael Smenta discuss his new book on how the normative prohibition against using nuclear weapons persists in world politics and may have been reaffirmed by the world’s response to Moscow’s saber-rattling in Ukraine. Rebecca Davis Gibbons, Associate Professor of Political Science at USM, will moderate the discussion.

With Professor Michal Smetana, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), moderated by Prof. Rebecca Davis Gibbons. Co-sponsored by The World Affairs Council of Maine. This event is free and open to the public.

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