India, Pakistan, and the Bomb

Informationen zum Autor ¿umit Ganguly is a professor of political science! holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations! and is the director of research at the Center on American and Global Security at Indiana University! Bloomington. He is also director of the university's India Studies Program. His other publications include The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War! Hopes of Peace. S. Paul Kapur is an associate professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a faculty affiliate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is the author of Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia. Klappentext In May 1998! India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation as to 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! ¿umit 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations1. Introduction2. The History of Indo-Pakistani Conflict3. Competing Arguments About South Asian Proliferation4. South Asia's Nuclear Past5. South Asia's Nuclear Present and Future6. Three Points of AgreementNotesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Ganguly, Sumit Ganguly, Ganguly Sumit, S. P. Kapur, S. Paul Kapur, Kapur S. Paul
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2012
• EAN: 9780231143752
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14375-2
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 211 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Columbia University Press; Contemporary Asia in the World; Contemporary Asia in the World
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Pakistan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, International Relations, India, Politics & government, Asian History, Nuclear weapons, Political control and freedoms, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, HISTORY / Asia / South / General