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South Asia's Cold War

Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

By: Rajesh M. Basrur

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South Asia's Cold War

Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

By: Rajesh M. Basrur

This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear rivals. Drawing on nuclear rivalries between similar pairs (United States-Soviet Union, United States-China, Soviet Union-China, and United States-North Korea), the work examines the rise, process and potential end of the cold war between India and Pakistan. It identifies the three factors driving the India-Pakistan rivalry: ideational factors stemming from partition; oppositional roles created by the distribution of power in South Asia; and the particular kind of relationship created by nuclear weapons. The volume assesses why India and Pakistan continue in non-crisis times to think about power and military force in outmoded ways embedded in pre-nuclear times, and draws lessons applicable to them as well as to other contemporary nuclear powers and states that might be engaged in future cold wars.

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1134165307

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Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security

By: Rajesh M. Basrur

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Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security

By: Rajesh M. Basrur

In this book, the leading authority on India's nuclear program offers an informed and thoughtful assessment of India's nuclear strategy. Basrur shows that the country's nuclear culture is generally in accord with the principle of minimum deterrence but sometimes drifts into a more open-ended view.

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9971694441

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Subcontinental Drift

Domestic Politics and India's Foreign Policy

By: Rajesh Basrur

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Subcontinental Drift

Domestic Politics and India's Foreign Policy

By: Rajesh Basrur

One of the most important developments in today's changing international system is the emergence of India as a rising power. However, Rajesh Basrur finds that India is held back by domestic constraints. Subcontinental Drift explains why India's foreign policy is often characterized by hesitations, delays, and diversions that may hamper its rise.

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Georgetown University Press

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1647122856

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Subcontinental Drift

Domestic Politics and India's Foreign Policy

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Domestic Politics and India's Foreign Policy

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Subcontinental Drift

Domestic Politics and India's Foreign Policy

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Domestic Politics and India's Foreign Policy

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How domestic constraints hamper India’s foreign policy and its potential as a superpower One of the most important developments in today’s changing international system is the emergence of India as a rising power. However, Rajesh Basrur finds that India is hobbled by serious domestic constraints. Subcontinental Drift explains why India’s foreign policy is often characterized by multiple hesitations, delays, and diversions that may ultimately hamper its rise. Basrur analyzes the concept of policy drift through the lens of neoclassical realist theory to reveal why this drift occurs so regularly in Indian foreign policy and how it affects India’s quest for major power status. Using four cases—the India-US strategic partnership, India-Sri Lanka relations, India’s nuclear strategy, and crossborder terrorism—Basrur identifies two basic explanations for India’s indecision on critical issues. The first, involuntary drift, is related to the distribution of domestic material power, while the second, voluntary drift, is produced by a responsibility deficit. Basrur develops a fresh theoretical basis for understanding the relationship between India’s foreign and domestic policies and introduces a series of theoretical refinements to neoclassical realism. Subcontinental Drift also provides advice on how policy makers might lower the costs of policy drift. This innovative analysis is essential to understanding the constraints around India’s foreign and domestic security decisions and how they will affect its rise.

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1647122864

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Nuclear South Asia

Keywords and Concepts

By: Rajesh Rajagopalan,Atul Mishra

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Nuclear South Asia

Keywords and Concepts

By: Rajesh Rajagopalan,Atul Mishra

This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons, and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states. This will serve as a useful reference especially as the nuclear issue continues to be an important domestic and international policy concern.

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1317324765

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Rising India

Status and Power

By: Rajesh Basrur,Kate Sullivan de Estrada

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Rising India

Status and Power

By: Rajesh Basrur,Kate Sullivan de Estrada

While India’s prospects as a rising power and its material position in the international system have received significant attention, little scholarly work exists on India’s status in contemporary world politics. This Routledge Focus book charts the ways in which India’s international strategies of status seeking have evolved from Independence up to the present day. The authors focus on the social dimensions of status, seeking to build on recent conceptual scholarship on status in world politics. The book shows how India has made a partial, though incomplete, shift from seeking status by rejecting material power and proximity to major powers, to seeking status by embracing both material power and major power relationships. However, it also challenges traditional understandings of the linear relationship between material power and status. Seven decades of Indian status seeking reveal that the enhancement of material power is one of only several routes Indian leaders have envisaged to lead to higher status. By arguing that a state requires more than material power to achieve status, this book reshapes understandings of both status seeking and Indian foreign policy. It will be of interest to academics and policy makers in the fields of international relations, foreign policy, and Indian studies.

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Minimum Deterrence and India's Nuclear Security

By: Rajesh M. Basrur

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South Asia's Cold War

Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

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Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

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Rising India

Status and Power

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Status and Power

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