Fearful symmetry : India-Pakistan crises in the shadow of nuclear weapons / Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty.

By:

Ganguly, Sumit

Contributor(s):

Hagerty, Devin T

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780295801193
0295801190

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fearful symmetryDDC classification:

327.5405491/09/045 22

LOC classification:

DS450.P18 G37 2005eb

Other classification:

15.77

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Wars without end? -- 1984: India, Pakistan, and preventive war fears -- Threat perceptions, military modernization and a crisis -- The 1990 Kashmir crisis -- Out of the closet: the 1998 nuclear tesets crisis -- The road to Kargil -- The 2001-2 Indo-Pakistani crisis: exposing the limits of coercive diplomacy -- Lessons, implications, and policy suggestions.

Summary: With the nuclearisation of the Indian sub-continent, Indo-Pakistani crises have acquired a deadly significance. The authors examine six crises of the past two decades and the role that nuclear weapons and the security dynamics of the United States in theregion have played in averting a major conflict.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

With the nuclearisation of the Indian sub-continent, Indo-Pakistani crises have acquired a deadly significance. The authors examine six crises of the past two decades and the role that nuclear weapons and the security dynamics of the United States in theregion have played in averting a major conflict.

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