When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty?:Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands
Even if most European countries have not yet joined the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the treaty has been salient in a number of national settings. In the Netherlands, the TPNW enjoys broad societal appeal, and the Dutch parliament has, on a number of occasions, called on the government to explore options for joining the treaty. In this piece, we empirically study Dutch attitudes toward joining the TPNW. Our findings indicate that a majority of the Dutch would prefer to accede to the TPNW only if nuclear-weapon states or other NATO allies also joined, although unilateral... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Onderco , M , Smetana , M , van der Meer , S & Etienne , T W 2021 , ' When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands ' , Nonproliferation Review . https://doi.org/10.1080/10736700.2021.1978156 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29459620 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/24f5c0e2-0daa-4d32-afdd-430592b7a623 |
Even if most European countries have not yet joined the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), the treaty has been salient in a number of national settings. In the Netherlands, the TPNW enjoys broad societal appeal, and the Dutch parliament has, on a number of occasions, called on the government to explore options for joining the treaty. In this piece, we empirically study Dutch attitudes toward joining the TPNW. Our findings indicate that a majority of the Dutch would prefer to accede to the TPNW only if nuclear-weapon states or other NATO allies also joined, although unilateral accession received relatively strong support among the youngest respondents, women, and voters supporting the left-wing parties. The most popular option is to join the TPNW at the same time that the nuclear-weapon states do, which seems to be a rather distant prospect in the current international-security environment.