Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia Tapa blanda - 2007 - 1st Edición
de S. Paul Kapur
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Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an opportunity to investigate this crucial question. Optimistic scholars argue that by threatening to raise the cost of war astronomically, nuclear weapons make armed conflict in South Asia extremely unlikely. Pessimistic scholars maintain that nuclear weapons make the subcontinent war-prone, because of technological, political, and organizational problems. This book argues that nuclear weapons have destabilized the subcontinent, principally because of their interaction with India and Pakistan's territorial preferences and relative military capabilities. These findings challenge both optimistic and pessimistic conventional wisdom and have implications beyond South Asia.
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Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an opportunity to investigate this crucial question. Optimistic scholars argue that by threatening to raise the cost of war astronomically, nuclear weapons make armed conflict in South Asia extremely unlikely. Pessimistic scholars maintain that nuclear weapons make the subcontinent war-prone, because of technological, political, and organizational problems. This book argues that nuclear weapons have destabilized the subcontinent, principally because of their interaction with India and Pakistan's territorial preferences and relative military capabilities. These findings challenge both optimistic and pessimistic conventional wisdom and have implications beyond South Asia.
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- Título Dangerous Deterrent: Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia
- Autor S. Paul Kapur
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Número de edición 1st
- Edición 1
- Páginas 280
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Fecha de publicación 2007-03-07
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780804755504 / 0804755507
- Peso 1 libras (0.45 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.88 x 6.25 x 0.6 pulgadas (22.56 x 15.88 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Deterrence (Strategy), Balance of power
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.021
Reseñas en medios
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 276
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