Nuclear weapons have risen up the international agenda as a result of increasing geopolitical tensions and declining support for arms control. Europe is especially threatened since Russia has used nuclear blackmail in Ukraine, yet public concern remains strangely muted.

In this session, Martin Shaw will discuss his new book, The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, which examines how the peace movement of the 1980s helped remove intermediate range nuclear missiles from Europe and end the Cold War, with Mary Kaldor.

Martin Shaw is Research Professor at IBEI and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex; and Mary Kaldor is Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict Research Programme at The London School of Economics and Political Science.