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| Author(s): |
Orion Siufi Noda
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Relações Internacionais (IRI) |
| Defense date: | 2023-05-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Feliciano de Sá Guimarães;
Laura Marie Considine;
Nicola Ann Leveringhaus;
Rafael Antonio Duarte Villa
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| Advisor: | Feliciano de Sá Guimarães |
| Abstract | |
Nuclear politics and weapons often draw security and military ideas to mind. Nevertheless, there is still an entire shadowed area of study within the realm of nuclear politics and weapons due to its unorthodox nature: nuclear symbolism. Current scholarship fails to acknowledge the importance of nuclear symbolism for the field of International Security and, more broadly, International Relations. This research aims to shed light on the non-orthodox facet of nuclear politics and weapons, linking the concept of nuclear symbolism to that of nuclear identity and State behaviour, through a case study of the United States since the end of the Second World War. To this end, the puzzle concerning this research refers to what is the role of nuclear symbolism in the construction of US nuclear identity, particularly within the scope of US nuclear behaviour in terms of proliferation and disarmament; to tackle this issue, discourse and documental analysis will be employed in order to assess the nuances of the symbolic facets of the possession of nuclear weapons within US nuclear strategy. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/04455-6 - Symbols of mass destruction: nuclear symbolism in the United States |
| Grantee: | Orion Siufi Noda |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |