South Asian Security And International Nuclear Order

Author : Mario Esteban Carranza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Rizwana Abbasi,Zafar Khan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000024470

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Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia by Rizwana Abbasi,Zafar Khan Pdf

This book explores evolving patterns of nuclear deterrence, the impact of new technologies, and changing deterrent force postures in the South Asian region to assess future challenges for sustainable peace and stability. Under the core principles of the security dilemma, this book analyzes the prevailing security environment in South Asia and offers unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral frameworks to stabilize peace and ensure deterrence stability in the South Asian region. Moreover, contending patterns of deterrence dynamics in the South Asian region are further elaborated as becoming inextricably interlinked with the broader security dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region and the interactions with the United States and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. As India and Pakistan are increasingly becoming part of the competing strategies exercised by the United States and China, the authors analyze how strategic uncertainty and fear faced by these rival states cause the introduction of new technologies which could gradually drift these competing states into more serious crises and military conflicts. Presenting innovative solutions to emerging South Asian challenges and offering new security mechanisms for sustainable peace and stability, this book will be of interest to academics and policymakers working on Asian Security studies, Nuclear Strategy, and International Relations.

Author : Bhumitra Chakma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Bhumitra Chakma
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409426264

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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. Unlike 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 they are employed by India and Pakistan in an extremely complex and competitive South Asian strategic landscape.

Author : Carnegie Task Force on Non-Proliferation and South Asian Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : India
ISBN : UCSD:31822003916475

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Nuclear Weapons and South Asian Security by Carnegie Task Force on Non-Proliferation and South Asian Security Pdf

Author : Sumit Ganguly,Dinshaw Mistry
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815738855

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Enduring and Emerging Issues in South Asian Security by Sumit Ganguly,Dinshaw Mistry Pdf

Analyzing regional challenges and their implications for U.S. foreign policy This book is an impressive overview of security and governance issues in South Asia and their implications for U.S. foreign policy in the region. The focus is on major enduring issues that include India-Pakistan relations, India-China relations, conventional forces, and nuclear weapons. The book's contributors also tackle a number of often underexplored issues, including democratic backsliding in India, authoritarian hardening in China, and the international ramifications of both. The impact of Pakistan's political culture on democracy, and the insurgency in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, along with examinations of the internal security challenges in Nepal, Bangladesh, and the Maldives provide lessons for other states on how to counterviolent extremism and insurgencies related to identity and marginalization. Anyone interested in South Asian security and U.S. policy toward the region will be rewarded with new insights on these topics, written by academics and analysts specializing in the issues. The chapter authors were close colleagues or advisees of long-time Brookings Institution senior fellow Stephen Philip Cohen. Cohen was the first American scholar to work on South Asian security studies. He largely defined the field, trained and mentored many of its leading analysts, and was himself its most experienced and insightful scholar-practitioner until his death in 2019. This book is dedicated to Cohen in recognition of his contributions to scholarship and policymaking on South Asia.

Author : Sagarika Dutt,Alok Bansal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136617676

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South Asian Security by Sagarika Dutt,Alok Bansal Pdf

The South Asian security complex refers to security interdependencies between the states in the region, and also includes the effect that powerful external actors, such as China, the US and Russia, and geopolitical interests have on regional dynamics. This book focuses on the national securities of a number of South Asian countries in order to discuss a range of issues related to South Asian security. The book makes a distinction between traditional and non-traditional security. While state-centric approaches such as bilateral relations between India and Pakistan are considered to be traditional realist approaches to security, the promotion of economic, environmental and human security reflect global concerns, liberal theories and cosmopolitan values. The book goes beyond traditional security issues to reflect the changing security agenda in South Asia in the twenty-first century, and is a useful contribution to studies on South Asian Politics and Security Studies.

Author : Mario E. Carranza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : S. Paul Kapur
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arms race
ISBN : 9971694433

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Dangerous Deterrent by S. Paul Kapur Pdf

Author : Marvin G Weinbaum,Chetan Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000312249

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South Asia Approaches The Millennium by Marvin G Weinbaum,Chetan Kumar Pdf

This innovative volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding South Asia's precarious security. Going far beyond common considerations of border defense and regime, the contributors rigorously trace the social, economic, and ecological origins of present antagonisms. Although careful attention is paid to state military policies in the post-Cold War era—particularly as governments respond to a growing arms trade and nuclear proliferation—the authors also explore the far-reaching implications of environmental degradation and narcotics trafficking for security in the region, arguing that threats such as these transcend boundaries and local political regimes. Exposing the fallacies of purely geopolitical, state-centric models for considering security issues, the authors highlight the complex historical interplay between state and unofficial actors. Concrete applications of their analysis to specific cases—like the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India—demonstrate the importance of confidence-building measures and the inefficacy of "zero-sum" approaches to security. Finally, through its dynamic model of security, this volume offers insights into the emerging significance of new regional identities and relations in the next millennium.

Author : Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231143752

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India, Pakistan, and the Bomb by Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur Pdf

"In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation about whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's next proliferators." "With these two major interpretations, Ganguly and Kapur tackle all sides of an urgent issue that has profound regional and global consequences. Sure to spark discussion and debate, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb thoroughly maps the potential impact of nuclear proliferation."--Cubierta.

Author : Lowell Dittmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317459552

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South Asia's Nuclear Security Dilemma by Lowell Dittmer Pdf

The nuclear test explosions in India and Pakistan in 1998, followed by the outbreak of hostilities over Kashmir in 1999, marked a frightening new turn in the ancient, bitter enmity between the two nations. Although the tension was eclipsed by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent American attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, it has not disappeared, as evidenced by the 2001 attack in the Indian Parliament by Islamic fundamentalists out of Kashmir. By 2002, these two nuclear-armed neighbors seemed to be once again on the brink of war. This book outlines the strategic structure of the rivalry and the dynamic forces driving it, and investigates various possible solutions. The expert contributors focus on the India-Pakistan rivalry, but also consider the China factor in South Asia's nuclear security dilemma. Although essentially political-strategic in its approach, the book includes coverage of opposing military arsenals and the impact of local terrorism on the delicate balance of power.

Author : Praful Bidwai,Achin Vanaik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-28
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : 0195656156

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South Asia On A Short Fuse(Oip) by Praful Bidwai,Achin Vanaik Pdf

This Is An Incisive Critique Of Reliance On Nuclear Weapons For Security, Both Globally And In South Asia. The Book Addresses A Range Of Issues Including The Ethics Of War, The Delusions Of Deterrence, Post-Coldwar Policies And Power Equations And Current Global Security Dilemmas.

Author : Jasjit Singh
Publisher : Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015052860577

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Asian Security in the 21st Century by Jasjit Singh Pdf

Momentous changes have been taking place in the global and Asian security parameters in recent years. The sudden and devastating financial crisis which swept East Asia in 1997,the continuing problems of economic restructuring in Russia, the perennial war in Afghanistan, the emerging challenges of energy security, trans-national terrorism, the continuing reliance on nuclear weapons, the transition of India and Pakistan across the nuclear threshold in May 1998(followed by their limited border war in Kargil in May-July1999) are only some of the more urgent issues of security which need to be evaluated comprehensively by all the countries of Asia, especially since all indications are that the next century will be an Asian Century.