When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands

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M. Onderco, Michal Smetana, Sico van der Meer, Tom Etienne
The Nonproliferation Review, 2021

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Onderco, M., Smetana, M., van der Meer, S., & Etienne, T. (2021). When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands. The Nonproliferation Review.

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Onderco, M., Michal Smetana, Sico van der Meer, and Tom Etienne. “When Do the Dutch Want to Join the Nuclear Ban Treaty? Findings of a Public Opinion Survey in the Netherlands.” The Nonproliferation Review (2021).

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Onderco, M., et al. “When Do the Dutch Want to Join the Nuclear Ban Treaty? Findings of a Public Opinion Survey in the Netherlands.” The Nonproliferation Review, 2021.

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@article{m2021a,
  title = {When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {The Nonproliferation Review},
  author = {Onderco, M. and Smetana, Michal and van der Meer, Sico and Etienne, Tom}
}

Abstract

ABSTRACT 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.