Summary This book explores — through extensive fieldwork — the link between development and security, critical to India’s Northeast, within the context of the cross-border…
Topic: South Asian Security
Abstract This article examines the role of ideas in US Army innovation after the Vietnam War. It challenges the view that failure, changes in the…
Summary The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and subsequent…
Introduction Ever since 9/11, the United States has provided Pakistan with a steady supply of security and nonsecurity assistance. U.S. officials have justified these generous…
Abstract This paper looks at ASEAN’s role in the context of the three main bilateral relations among the great powers in Asia: China-US, China-Japan, and…
Abstract Nuclear rivalry in South Asia is discussed almost exclusively in terms of the India-Pakistan binary relationship. However, the detail of the nuclear weapons proliferation…
Summary In this age of globalisation the book, Nuclear Power and Politics of South Asia- New Disclosures, unfolds different stages of the growth of nuclear…
Summary China’s rise and the relative decline of the US have resulted in a transition of power in Asia, manifested by Washington’s pivot towards the…
Abstract South Asia is one of the densely populated regions of the world. A disaster in the nature of nuclear accident in one country will…
Summary Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an…
Summary The author argues that, while nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles cast a shadow over Indo-Pakistani relations, they do not create strategic stability. He asserts…
Summary Since their founding as independent nations, nuclear issues have been key elements of nationalism and the public sphere in both India and Pakistan. Yet…
Abstract With several long-range ballistic missiles in development, the Indian nuclear posture is entering an important new phase. After nearly two decades of focusing on…
Summary India and Pakistan have developed and flight tested seventeen new nuclear weapon delivery vehicles since testing nuclear devices in 1998 – an average of…
Abstract This essay provides an overview of the ongoing quantitative and qualitative changes in Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and their impact on deterrence stability vis-à-vis India.…
