South Asian security and international nuclear order creating a robust Indo-Pakistani nuclear arms control regime /

• Main Author: Carranza, Mario Esteban.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., c2009.
• Subjects: Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.; Nuclear arms control > India.; Nuclear arms control > Pakistan.; Nuclear nonproliferation > India.; Nuclear nonproliferation > Pakistan.; Security, International > India.; Security, International > Pakistan.; Nuclear arms control.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.; India > Foreign relations > Pakistan.; Pakistan > Foreign relations > India.; Electronic books.
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Mario Carranza studies in depth the linkages between Indo-Pakistani nuclear relations and the International Nuclear Order. He critically analyzes the de facto recognition by the United States of India and Pakistan as nuclear weapon states and looks at the impact of that recognition on the Internatio...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: an ever thicker shadow / Aaron Karp
• - 1. Introduction: Indo-Pakistani nuclear relations and the crisis of the international nuclear order
• 2. Dangerous optimism: Indo-Pakistani nuclear relations before the May 1998 nuclear tests
• 3. South Asian security after the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests
• 4. India-Pakistan crises after the nuclear tests: the Kargil war (1999) and the 2001-2002 border confrontation
• 5. US policy toward South Asia: from non-proliferation to post-proliferation and the US-India nuclear deal
• 6. Conclusion: South Asian security and the post 9/11 international nuclear order: can the genie be put back in the bottle?