Sumit Ganguly / Paul S. Kapur (eds.)

Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia

Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb
Herausgeber: Ganguly, Sumit; Kapur, S Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume explores competing perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons proliferation on the South Asian security environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415440493
• ISBN-10: 0415440491
• Artikelnr.: 25682892

Autorenporträt

Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and is director of research of the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 15 books on South Asia. S. Paul Kapur is associate professor in the Department of Strategic Research, U.S. Naval War College, and visiting professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur 2. A Dangerous Exercise:
Brasstacks as Non-Nuclear Near War Varun Sahni 3. Brasstacks: Prudently
Pessimistic John H. Gill 4. Nuclear Optimism and the 1990 India-Pakistan
Crisis Manjeet S. Pardesi 5. Crisis and Opportunity: The 1990 Nuclear
Crisis in South Asia Karthika Sasikumar 6. The Kargil War: An Optimistic
Assessment Devin T. Hagerty 7. The Kargil War and Nuclear Deterrence Neil
Joeck 8. A War to End a War: The Causes and Outcomes of the 2001-2
India-Pakistan Crisis Praveen Swami 9. To War or Not to War: The
India-Pakistan Crisis of 2001-2 Kanti Bajpai 10. North Korea's
Nuclearization and the Fallout from the Subcontinent Andrew Scobell and
Michael R. Chambers 11. The Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran in Light
of South Asia's Nuclear Experience Devin T. Hagerty