The Hegemon’s Tool Kit : US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Stephen Herzog reviews Rebecca Davis Gibbons' 2022 Cornell University Press book titled "The Hegemon’s Tool Kit: US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime." He concludes that the book could be a key educational and policymaking resource for understanding the formation and promotion of the global nuclear order. Two natural forward-looking questions are also raised by the book and its analyses. First, how will the nonproliferation regime cope with Russia's war on Ukraine and its implications for the global nuclear order? Second, can the relatively new UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) be successful if the hegemon continues to oppose it?