Christoph Hartmut Bluth

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Christoph Bluth

Christoph Hartmut Bluth FRHistS [ citation needed ] is a professor of international relations and security at the University of Bradford. [1]

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Family and education

Christoph Bluth was born in Frankfurt and grew up in North Rhine-Westphalia. He is the son of Winfried Bluth who was an evangelical Christian and a publishing consultant.[ citation needed ] He studied at Trinity College Dublin, where he completed a BA in mathematics (1980) and an MPhil in ecumenical theology (1984). His master's thesis, Just War Theory and the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict, was supervised by Bill McSweeney; its conclusions were published in the Journal of Peace Research . [2] At King's College London, he conducted research for his PhD thesis on "Soviet Strategic Arms Policy under Khrushchev" under the supervision of Lawrence Freedman at the Department of War Studies.[ citation needed ]

Career

At the age of 18, Bluth published his first book, Der Ursprung des Lebens ("The origin of life"), a creationist critique of evolutionary theory. [3] [ unreliable source? ] After he completed his undergraduate studies he worked as the representative from Northern Ireland for the Student Christian Movement.[ citation needed ]

Bluth's work has focussed on the role of nuclear weapons and the risks of nuclear proliferation in global security. His early work studied the Soviet Union.[ citation needed ] Subsequently, he worked on US-Russian cooperation on nuclear security and safety in the context of the Nunn-Lugar programme on co-operative denuclearization. [4]

Bluth's recent work on nuclear proliferation has been controversial for his view that nuclear proliferation is rare and that the spread of nuclear weapons has been less critical to international security than is often claimed. [5] He states that his work in peace studies has been dedicated to education and research in international security studies, with the purpose of providing insights that contribute to the understanding of the risks of nuclear war and paths towards removing nuclear weapons from international relations in the future. [6] [7]

Publications

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References

  1. "Professor Christoph Bluth". University of Bradford. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  2. Bluth, Christoph (March 1987). "The British Resort to Force in the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict 1982: International Law and Just War Theory". Journal of Peace Research . 24: 5–20. doi:10.1177/002234338702400102. S2CID   145424339.
  3. "The German Creationist Movement". www.icr.org. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  4. Bluth, Christoph (20 December 1998). "The new nuclear threat". Prospect . Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  5. Christoph Bluth, “The Irrelevance of 'Trusting Relationships' in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Reconsidering the Dynamics of Proliferation”, British Journal of Politics & International Relations 14(1):115-130 2012; Christoph Bluth, 'Civilian Nuclear Cooperation and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons', International Security, Vol.35, No.1, 2010, pp.184-88 (Correspondence Section); Christoph Bluth, “Nuclear Proliferation: Reassessing the Threat to Global Security”, The Korean Journal of Security Affairs, Vol.16 No.2, December 2011, 39-62
  6. "RSIS Seminar by Professor Christoph Bluth, Director of Internationalisation, Faculty of Social Sciences, Division of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, United Kingdom | RSIS". Nanyang Technological University . Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  7. "Interview with Prof. Dr. Christoph Bluth on Current Nuclear Threats to Peace and Stability". German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance. January 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  8. Reviews of Soviet Strategic Arms Policy before SALT:
  9. Pfaltzgraff, Robert L. (2002). Slavic Review . 61 (4): 867–868. doi:10.2307/3090438. ISSN   0037-6779. JSTOR   3090438. S2CID   164456105.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. Reviews of Germany and the Future of European Security:
  11. Morgan, Roger (2003). International Affairs . 79 (5): 1107. ISSN   0020-5850. JSTOR   3568981.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)