Fearful symmetry : India-Pakistan crises in the shadow of nuclear weapons /

Ganguly, Sumit.

Fearful symmetry : India-Pakistan crises in the shadow of nuclear weapons / Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.



9780295801193


Nuclear weapons--India.
Nuclear weapons--Pakistan.


Electronic Books.

DS450 / .F437 2005