The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia

Author(s)

• Chakma, Bhumitra

Bibliographic Information

The politics of nuclear weapons in South Asia

edited by Bhumitra Chakma

Ashgate, c2011

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-257) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics, in contrast to other books, this volume emphasises the political dimension of South Asia's nuclear weapons, explains how the bombs are used as politico-strategic assets rather than pure battlefield weapons and how India and Pakistan utilise them for politico-strategic purposes in an extremely complex and competitive South Asian strategic landscape. Written by a group of perceptive observers of South Asia, this volume evaluates the current state of Indo-Pakistani nuclear deterrents, the challenges that the two countries confront in building their nuclear forces, the post-test nuclear doctrines of the two strategic rivals, the implications of Indo-Pakistani politics for regional cooperation, the role of two systemic actors (USA and China) in the region's nuclear politics and the critical issues of confidence-building and nuclear arms control.

Table of Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction, Bhumitra Chakma
• Part I Nuclear Deterrence and South Asia: Conceptual and Practical Dimensions: Two decades of minimum deterrence in South Asia: a comparative framework, Rajesh M. Basrur
• The road from Pokhran II, Sumit Ganguly
• The Pakistani nuclear deterrent, Bhumitra Chakma. Part II Doctrinal Developments: India's nuclear doctrine: 10 years since the Kargil conflict, Swaran Singh
• Pakistan's post-test nuclear use doctrine, Bhumitra Chakma. Part III Nuclear Politics: Extra-Regional Linkages and Consequences: The China factor in South Asian nuclear politics, Binoda Kumar Mishra
• South Asia's nuclear deterrence and the USA, Bhumitra Chakma
• Nuclear proliferation in South Asia and its impact on regional cooperation, Nishchal Nath Pandey and Bhumitra Chakma. Part IV Confidence-Building and Nuclear Arms Control: 'I had gone to Lahore with a message of goodwill but in return we got Kargil': the promise and perils of 'leaps of trust' in India-Pakistan relations, Nicholas J. Wheeler
• Nuclear confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan: possible alternatives, Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
• Addressing nuclear dangers: confidence building between India, China and Pakistan, Dipankar Banerjee
• Nuclear arms control challenges in South Asia, Bhumitra Chakma
• Bibliography
• Index.

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• NCID: BB07219018
• ISBN:
  • 9781409426257
• LCCN: 2011011354
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Farnham, Surrey, England
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 263 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : UA832.7
  • DC22 : 355.02/170954
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nuclear weapons -- South Asia
  • LCSH : Pakistan -- Foreign relations -- India
  • LCSH : India -- Foreign relations -- Pakistan
  • LCSH : Arms race -- South Asia
  • LCSH : Nuclear disarmament -- South Asia