Abstract What explains a state’s decision to give up its nuclear weapons program? While instances of nuclear reversal figure prominently in international politics, evidence in…
Country or Region: Pakistan
Abstract The new international nuclear regime requires accession to fullscope safeguards and an acceptance of the formal restraints imposed by the London Nuclear Suppliers Group…
Abstract Scholars have long debated whether nuclear superiority or the balance of resolve shapes the probability of victory in nuclear crises, but they have not…
Abstract This essay identifies a difference of opinion over the role of nuclear weapons as an absolute deterrent as the basis for the theoretical disagreement…
Abstract This essay evaluates the likely consequences of a hypothetical nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan by estimating the civilian casualties that would result from…
Abstract Notwithstanding its acquisition of nuclear weapons capability, India has adhered to a long-standing commitment to universal nuclear disarmament. Its optimism over recent global initiatives…
Abstract This article seeks to examine the foreign policy behaviour of weak states in regions marked by politically turbulent geostrategic environments. An analysis of Afghanistan’s…
Abstract This article examines the foreign policy behavior of two rival states, India and Pakistan. Previous studies of this dyad reveal competing causal claims concerning…
Abstract Very little is known about Pakistan’s nuclear policy and, in particular, about its adoption of minimum deterrence, given the existence of nuclear ambiguity and…
Publication Year: 2019 US-Pakistan Relations: Pakistan’s Strategic Choices in the 1990s Summary US foreign policy-making from the end of the Cold War to after 2001…
Summary This important book analyzes nuclear weapon and energy policies in Asia, a region at risk for high-stakes military competition, conflict, and terrorism. The contributors…
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Abstract Neither bilateral nor multilateral approaches have successfully convinced India and Pakistan to become part of the nonproliferation regime, but a dynamic that includes China…
Publication Year: 2016 Unconventional Warfare in South Asia: Shadow Warriors and Counterinsurgency Summary India is the world’s tenth largest economy and possesses the world’s fourth largest…
Abstract The first decade of the 21st century saw the international community take new legal measures to prevent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from falling…
Abstract Nearly half a century after the five declared nuclear-weapon states in 1968 pledged under the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to “pursue negotiations in good…
