A world without nukes: International relations perspectives

What if nuclear weapons had been neither invented nor discovered? This is the question I take into consideration in this paper. This interesting scenario begs the answer parroted by bloggers and students of politics alike-without nuclear weapons, there would be nothing to stop belligerents from invading, attacking, and otherwise infringing upon the sovereignty of other states. In this paper, I take into consideration many events that are colored by the very existence of nuclear weapons. I consider the counterfactual scenario from the perspective of several international relations lenses: neorealism, liberal institutionalism, and feminism. After a thorough analysis of these differing viewpoints, I conclude that the feminist perspective is most persuasive in elucidating what the world would look like in the absence of nuclear weapons.