Sumit Ganguly - Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia

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

The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the worlds 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 proliferations effects on the crisis behaviour of newly nuclear states. This volume does not take a single position regarding nuclear weapons effects on the South Asian security environment. Rather, it 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; and the 20012 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.

This book will be of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, international security, and Asian politics.

Sumit Ganguly is 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 fifteen books on South Asia.

S. Paul Kapur is Associate Professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at he U. S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey.

Few regions of the world are fraught with as many security questions as Asia. Within this region it is possible to study great power rivalries, irredentist conflicts, nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, secessionist movements, ethno-religious conflicts, and inter-state wars. This book series publishes the best possible scholarship on the security issues affecting the region, and includes detailed empirical studies, theoretically oriented case studies, and policy-relevant analyses, as well as more general works.

China and International Institutions

Alternate paths to global power

Marc Lanteigne

Chinas Rising Sea Power

The PLA Navys submarine challenge

Peter Howarth

If China Attacks Taiwan

Military strategy, politics and economics

Steve Tsang (ed.)

Chinese Civil-Military Relations

The transformation of the Peoples Liberation Army

Nan Li (ed.)

The Chinese Army Today

Tradition and transformation for the 21st century

Dennis J. Blasko

Taiwans Security

History and prospects

Bernard D. Cole

Religion and Conflict in South and Southeast Asia

Disrupting violence

Linell E. Cady and Sheldon W. Simon (eds)

Political Islam and Violence in Indonesia

Zachary Abuza

USIndian Strategic Cooperation into the 21st Century

More than words

Sumit Ganguly, Brian Shoup and Andrew Scobell (eds)

India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad

The covert war in Kashmir, 19472004

Praveen Swami

Chinas Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making

Confucianism, leadership and war

Huiyun Feng

Military Strategy in the Third Indochina War

The last Maoist war

Edward C. ODowd

Asia Pacific Security

US, Australia and Japan and the new security triangle

William T. Tow, Satu Limaye, Mark Thomson and Yoshinobu Yamamoto

China, the United States and South-East Asia

Contending perspectives on politics, security and economics

Evelyn Goh and Sheldon W. Simon

Conflict and Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic States

Institutional incentives, myths and counter-balancing

Brian Dale Shoup

Chinas War on Terrorism

Counter-insurgency, politics and internal security

Martin I. Wayne

US Taiwan Policy

Constructing the triangle

ystein Tunsj

Conflict Management, Security and Intervention in East Asia

Third-party mediation and intervention between China and Taiwan

Jacob Bercovitch, Kwei-Bo Huang, and Chung-Chian Teng (eds)

South Asias Cold War

Nuclear weapons and conflict in comparative perspective

Rajesh M. Basrur

The Rise of China and International Security

America and Asia respond

Kevin J. Cooney and Yoichiro Sato (eds)

Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia

Crisis behaviour and the bomb

Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur (eds)

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Nuclear proliferation in South Asia : crisis behaviour and the bomb / edited by Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur.
p. cm. -- (Asian security studies)
1. Nuclear weapons--South Asia. 2. Arms race--South Asia. 3. Security, International. I. Ganguly, Sumit. II. Kapur, S. Paul.
UA832.7. N8 2008
355.02170954dc22 2008004918

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India and Pakistan: conventional military balance (1990)

Terrorist violence in Jammu and Kashmir, 19902005

The evolution of North Koreas nuclear motives

Nuclear doctrine, existing versus aspirational

Nuclear breakout packages: parallel paths?

Kanti Bajpai is currently Headmaster, The Doon School, Dehra Dun, India, and was formerly Professor of International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He specializes in security studies and Indias external relations.