Michal Smetana: Nuclear Deviance. Stigma Politics and the Rules of the Nonproliferation Game.
Abstract
This book examines the linkage between deviance and norm change in
international politics. It draws on an original theoretical perspective
grounded in the sociology of deviance to study the violations of norms and
rules in the global nuclear non-proliferation regime. As such, this project
provides a unique conceptual framework and applies it to highly salient
issues in the contemporary international security environment. The
theoretical/conceptual chapters are accompanied by three extensive case.
studies: Iran, North Korea, and India
Author Biography
Miroslav Tůma
Dr. Miroslav Tůma (colonel [retd]) graduated from the Military
Communications School, Nove Mesto n. Váhom, and later from the Faculty
of Law of Charles University, Prague. He served in various command and
staff posts and took part in the UN peacekeeping and humanitarian
operations in Angola and Iraq. After ending his military career in December
1992, he was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech
Republic. He worked there until his retirement in 2001, when he started to
work as a senior research fellow of the Institute of International Relations
(IIR) in Prague. He is the author of several publications dealing mainly with
arms control, nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, which were
edited by the IIR and other institutes. He contributes to various periodicals,
and lectures on arms control and disarmament at the Faculty of Law of
Charles University in Prague.