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Author:   E. Sridharan (UPIASI, New Delhi, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780415424080

ISBN 10:   0415424089
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   07 March 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: Subcontinental Perspectives on Deterrence Theory, International Relations Theory and South Asia E. Sridharan 2. International Relations Theory and the India-Pakistan Conflict E. Sridharan 3. Deterrence and Nuclear Use: Doctrines in South Asia Rifaat Hussain 4. Conceptualising Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Posture Rasul B. Rais 5. The China Factor in South Asia’s Nuclear Deterrence Swaran Singh 6. Theories of Deterrence and Nuclear Deterrence in the Subcontinent Arvind Kumar 7. Operation Vijay and Operation Parakram: The Victory of Theory? W.P.S. Sidhu 8. South Asia: The Irrelevance of Classical Nuclear Deterrence Theory Bharat Karnad 9. International Relations Theory and Minimum Deterrence Rajesh M. Basrur 10. The Threat of Unintended Use of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia Rajesh Rajagopalan 11. The Stability-Unstability Paradox in South Asia Varun Sahni

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Dr Sridharan is Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi. He is Ph.D from the same university where he studied political science. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics, and Institute for Developing Economies, Tokyo. Dr Sridharan’s research interests are comparative politics and political economy of development, party systems and coalition politics, and international relations. He is the author of The Political economy of Industrial promotion: Indian, Brazilian and Korean Electronics in Comparative Perspective; and co-editor of India’s Living Constitution : Ideas, Practices, Controversies, and India in the Global Software Industry.

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