Australian National University and member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network Board of Directors. Former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General
“As the most significant leap in nuclear disarmament in fifty years and a rare case-study of successful state-civil society partnership in multilateral diplomacy, the Nuclear Ban Treaty challenged the established NPT-centric nuclear order. Written by one of the architects of the transformational normative reframing, this book is an authoritative insider account of the genesis and negotiation history of the Treaty and the Humanitarian Initiative behind it.”