Description
Bringing together different interpretive approaches to global nuclear governance, this panel highlights the importance of knowledge, discourse, and meaning for understanding contemporary nuclear politics. To what extent should interpreting nuclear orders focus, for instance, on normative or emotive abstractions, shared beliefs, ideas, or identities? When studying nuclear orders, what are the underlying ontological, epistemic, or methodological assumptions? How important are discursive and material structures of power and hierarchy in global nuclear governance, and what is the role of agency and resistance? How can we interpret the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in international nuclear politics? Whose discourses of peaceful nuclear orders matter, and why?
