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India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia
Šumit Ganguly
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Description for India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia
Paperback. Series: Contemporary Asia in the World. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; JPSD; JPWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
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, Sumit 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. Ganguly begins with an outcome-based approach emphasizing the results of militarized conflict. In his opinion, nuclear weapons have prevented Indo-Pakistani disputes from blossoming into full-scale war. Kapur ... Read more
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, Sumit 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. Ganguly begins with an outcome-based approach emphasizing the results of militarized conflict. In his opinion, nuclear weapons have prevented Indo-Pakistani disputes from blossoming into full-scale war. Kapur ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Contemporary Asia in the World
Condition
New
Weight
218g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231143752
SKU
V9780231143752
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-12
About Šumit Ganguly
Sumit Ganguly is professor of political science and holds the Rabindranath Tagoe Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. His other publications include The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace. S. Paul Kapur is professor in the Department of ... Read more
Reviews for India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia
Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur give us an unusually productive dialogue between deeply informed scholars who disagree about an issue of great theoretical interest and policy relevance. The stability of the South Asian nuclear balance is debated with such a fruitful combination of analytical rigor and empirical evidence that students of both the region and the general topic of ... Read more