Nuclear Weapons And Arms Control In South Asia After The Test Ban

Author : Eric H. Arnett
Publisher : SIPRI Research Reports
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198294115

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Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in South Asia After the Test Ban by Eric H. Arnett Pdf

As the nuclear weapon states continue to reduce their nuclear arsenals and international efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons are reinvigorated, South Asia remains a unique region almost entirely unencumbered by nuclear arms control. Despite the recent popularity of the notion that nuclear deterrence is stabilizing the Indo-Pakistani conflict, there is good reason to believe that the risks of war and the use of nuclear weapons are not fully appreciated. Nevertheless, the prospects for negotiated measures to improve the situation are not good because of the domestic politics on both sides. Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in South Asia after the Test Ban sheds new light on the risks of the current stand-off, the hidden costs of the nuclear options, and the domestic sources of the region's inertia, bringing together Indian, Pakistani and Chinese perspectives.

Author : Bhumitra Chakma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317020325

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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia by Bhumitra Chakma Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen P Cohen
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019632648

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Nuclear Proliferation In South Asia by Stephen P Cohen Pdf

This study is based on two policy-related premises: the pessimistic one is that both Pakistan and India have developed nuclear weapons covertly, yet hold back from deployment because each sees political advantages in a policy of nuclear ambiguity. The optimistic premise is that arms control and verification could take root in both countries to limit the instability of their national rivalry and nuclear potentials. The first premise shapes Cohen's "regionalist" policy views. The second premise is the key to several chapters by others. The volume includes two political position papers from opposed national perspectives by Akhtar Ali from Pakistan and Brahma Chellaney from India. The latter explains India's traditional reticence toward region-specific arms-control schemes. Akhtar Ali presents insights both into the real obstacles and the openings that could move them aside. ISBN 0-8133-8159-2 (pbk.): $47.00.

Author : Mario Esteban Carranza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317052272

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South Asian Security and International Nuclear Order by Mario Esteban Carranza Pdf

Mario Carranza studies in depth the linkages between Indo-Pakistani nuclear relations and the International Nuclear Order. He critically analyzes the de facto recognition by the United States of India and Pakistan as nuclear weapon states and looks at the impact of that recognition on the International Nuclear Order and its linchpin, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The book provides a critical analysis of the New International Nuclear Order sponsored by the United States after the September 11 terrorist attacks and the place of India and Pakistan in that order. The author considers the survival of India and Pakistan in relation to a strategy of nuclear deterrence and debates the possibility of establishing a robust nuclear arms control regime in South Asia as part of a broader effort to revive global nuclear arms control and disarmament negotiations.

Author : Ishtiaq Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nuclear arms control
ISBN : UOM:39015042145626

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Nuclear Non-proliferation Issues in South Asia by Ishtiaq Ahmed Pdf

Author : Mario E. Carranza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442245624

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India-Pakistan Nuclear Diplomacy by Mario E. Carranza Pdf

Using a constructivist model, this study brings nuclear arms control and disarmament back into the debates on the future of Indo-Pakistani relations. Constructivism recognizes the independent impact of international norms, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norm (NNPN), on India and Pakistan’s nuclear behavior. Even though the NNPN does not legally bind them, it is reinforced at the global level, and may lead the South Asian rivals to move in the direction of nuclear arms control and disarmament, thus reducing the costs, dangers, and risks of an eternal strategic rivalry. After examining the main tenets of constructivism in international relations, the works delves into the proliferation debate, discussing nuclear reversal and U.S. policy toward the subcontinent since the G. W. Bush administration. It looks at the prospects for nuclear arms control and disarmament in South Asia after the U.S.-India nuclear deal of 2008, and the nuclear abolitionist wave during the first Obama administration. It concludes with the contribution of social constructivism to understanding how changes in the India-Pakistan nuclear status quo can happen.

Author : Bhumitra Chakma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317586883

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South Asia's Nuclear Security by Bhumitra Chakma Pdf

South Asia is often viewed as a potential nuclear flashpoint and a probable source of nuclear terrorism. But, how valid are such perceptions? This book seeks to address this question and assesses the region’s nuclear security from two principal standpoints. First, it evaluates the robustness of the Indo-Pakistani mutual deterrence by analysing the strength and weaknesses of the competing arguments regarding the issue. It also analyses the causes and consequences of nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan, the nature of deterrence structure in the region and the challenges of confidence building and arms control between the two countries in order to assess the robustness of South Asia’s nuclear deterrence. Second, it assesses the safety and security of the nuclear assets and nuclear infrastructure of India and Pakistan. The author holds that the debate on South Asia’s nuclear security is largely misplaced because the optimists tend to overemphasise the stabilising effects of nuclear weapons and the pessimists are too alarmists. It is argued that while the risks of nuclear weapons are significant, it is unlikely that India and Pakistan will give up their nuclear arsenals in the foreseeable future. Therefore, what needs to happen is that while nuclear elimination should be the long-term goal, in the interim years the two countries need to pursue minimum deterrence policies to reduce the likelihood of deterrence failure and the possibility of obtaining fissile materials by non-state actors.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0876092369

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After the Tests by Anonim Pdf

This Independent Task Force report recommends that the immediate objectives of U.S. foreign policy should be to encourage India and Pakistan to cap their nuclear capabilities and to reinforce the effort to stem nuclear weapons proliferation.

Author : Devin T. Hagerty
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0262581612

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The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation by Devin T. Hagerty Pdf

Hagerty analyzes how India and Pakistan interacted in diplomatic and military crises before their 1998 nuclear tests. He presents detailed studies of the January 1987 Indo-Pakistani crisis, precipitated by India's Brasstacks military exercises, and the 1990 confrontation over Kashmir. Hagerty concludes that relations between India and Pakistan in recent years support the argument that nuclear proliferation does not necessarily destabilize international relations and may even reduce the risk of war.

Author : Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134069620

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Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia by Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur Pdf

This edited volume explores competing perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons proliferation on the South Asian security environment. The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the world’s foremost security concerns. The effect of nuclear weapons on the behaviour of newly nuclear states, and the potential for future international crises, are of particular concern. As a region of burgeoning economic and political importance, South Asia offers a crucial test of proliferation’s effects on the crisis behaviour of newly nuclear states. This volume creates a dialogue between scholars who believe that nuclear weapons have stabilized the subcontinent, and those who believe that nuclear weapons have made South Asia more conflict prone. It does so by pairing competing analyses of four major regional crises: the 1987 "Brasstacks" crisis, the Indo-Pakistani crisis of 1990, the 1999 Kargil war, which occurred after the nuclear tests; and the 2001–2 Indo-Pakistani militarized standoff. In addition, the volume explores the implications of the South Asian nuclear experience for potential new nuclear states such as North Korea and Iran.

Author : Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349269723

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Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones by Ramesh Thakur Pdf

Almost the entire southern hemisphere is now covered by nuclear-weapon-free zones. The ones in Latin America and the South Pacific were established during the Cold War, those in Southeast Asia and Africa after its ending. Zones have also been proposed, so far without success, for the Middle East, South Asia and Northeast Asia. In this book, analysts from within the respective regions explore the reasons for success and failure in the establishment of the zone, and their utility and limitations as stepping stones to a nuclear-weapon-free world.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061646555

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Crisis in South Asia by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Arthur Larsen,Thomas D. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UIUC:30112047835407

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Arms Control in the Asia-Pacific Region by Jeffrey Arthur Larsen,Thomas D. Miller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ithaca Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050251142

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The Balance of Power in South Asia by Anonim Pdf

This collection of papers discusses the rationale behind the decision to conduct nuclear tests and the impact on the South Asian region and the Arabian Gulf. It considers the perspectives of various countries, including: India, Pakistan, China and the Gulf countries.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Nuclear nonproliferation
ISBN : LOC:00002642888

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Pakistan and United States Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science Pdf