Nick Ritchie

Professor in the Department of Politics & International Relations, University of York, UK. Stuff about UK nukes, TPNW, and nuclear violence.

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

Our new article in @csosjournal asks: what happens when a major party challenges the UK’s national security “common sense”? The Corbyn years (2015–19) offer a revealing case study of orthodoxy, contestation & possibility.
https://t.co/oyAPycxMel
w/@EliSchweig & Dr Thomas Martin

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

This case shows both the limits & possibilities of change when security orthodoxies are contested. It raises vital questions for democracy, party politics & the left in an era of global insecurity.
@RethinkingSecu1 #Corbyn #UKLabour #SecurityStudies

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

Our new article in @csosjournal asks: what happens when a major party challenges the UK’s national security “common sense”? The Corbyn years (2015–19) offer a revealing case study of orthodoxy, contestation & possibility.
https://t.co/oyAPycxMel
w/@EliSchweig & Dr Thomas Martin

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

Through a neo-Gramscian lens, we show how “strength, patriotism & militarism” operate as common sense in UK security debates. Corbyn’s alternatives were cast as weak & unpatriotic despite enjoying public support — showing how ideology polices what is seen as legitimate policy.

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

Latest bi-annual update of #TPNW related books, articles and reports covering Jan-June 2025 is now available here: https://t.co/JABjIxZv1t

Full searchable database available here: https://t.co/F0PSvyjG6J

@nuclearban #bantreaty #disarmament #TPNW

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

Latest bi-annual update of #TPNW related books, articles and reports covering July-Dec 2024 s now available: https://t.co/QOd22Vio8x

Full searchable database available here: https://t.co/F0PSvyjG6J

@nuclearban #bantreaty #disarmament

[Andrey Baklitskiy @baklitskiy]

There are few people that know nuclear security in general and Russian nuclear security in particular as well as Dima, he would be an invaluable hire!

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

@PatriciaMary @ChathamHouse #Legend. If there was a nuclear disarmament hall of fame, you'd be in it.

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

@seb6philippe @APSphysics @PrincetonSPIA Fantastic Sébastien!! Very well-deserved

[Kjølv Egeland @kjolvegeland]

The Struggle for Abolition—my book on the history of multilateral nuclear disarmament initiatives from the 1960s till today—is live open access @CERI_SciencesPo
@ScPoResearch @EU_NonProlif
@ERC_Research https://t.co/8B6Z0Pt9M7

[Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor @BanMonitor]

📢New edition of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor is out.
👇Read & download the report in the app.
🔎See our latest assessments of all states' policies and practices in relation to the prohibitions of the TPNW + analysis of progress in universalisation.

https://t.co/uEy1v8gHRL

[Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor @BanMonitor]

197 state profiles now updated and available on https://t.co/OhGhE1bKgE. @ODA_Geneva @UNIDIR @ICRC_NYC @TJAQUEZH @alexanderkmentt @nuclearban @DisarmamentIRL @MFATNZ @AustriaUN

[Larry1915 @Didsbury0904]

@pesach_lattin Disastrous pick

[Wildfire_ @Wildfire_v]

Already bored at #NPTPrepCom? To ease your pain, and due to popular demand, we are pleased to make available online the Wildfire Guide to the NPT RevCon. Updated with bonus material! #NPT2024
https://t.co/rEAuP1rOx7

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman again expresses her outrage at Labour scrapping the #RwandaScheme

If you think it should be pointed out in every interview the scheme was fundamentally incompatible with the UK’s human rights obligations RT this widely

[Hassan Elbahtimy @DrElbahtimy]

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📢Great to see our second special issue on irreversibility in nuclear politics come out in @J_NuclearDisarm The focus in this issue is on exploring dynamics of irreversibility/reversibility through case studies. Check it out here: https://t.co/QwtPzfvJUZ

[Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament @J_NuclearDisarm]

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, Volume 7, Issue 1 is now available online with two special sections on "Irreversibility in Global Nuclear Politics Part II: Empirical Insights" and "Reducing the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Use in Northeast Asia." https://t.co/W2AK7jgmhd

[Nick Ritchie @ProfNickRitchie]

Thanks Tories:

https://t.co/Lw9oPE77nG

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

This is getting ridiculous - how can Farage constantly get airtime with no one pointing out to him & viewers the Brexit he championed has by almost every economic & financial measure been disastrous for the UK?

If that outrages you as much me RT this widely