Fearful Symmetry: India-pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

by Ganguly, Sumit; Hagerty, Devin T.

• ISBN13: 9780295986357
• ISBN10: 0295986352
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Summary

With the nuclearization of the Indian subcontinent, Indo-Pakistani crisis behavior has acquired a deadly significance. This lucid and comprehensive study of the two nations' crisis behavior in the nuclear age is the first work on Indo-Pakistani relations to take systematic account of the role played by the United States in South Asia's security dynamics over the past two decades in the context of unipolarization, and formulates a blueprint for American policy toward a more positive and productive India-Pakistan relationship.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
1. Introduction	1	(20)
2. Wars Without End?	21	(23)
3. 1984	44	(24)
India, Pakistan, and Preventive War Fears
4. Threat Perceptions, Military Modernization, and a Crisis	68	(14)
5. The 1990 Kashmir Crisis	82	(34)
6. Out of the Closet	116	(27)
The 1998 Nuclear Tests Crisis
7. The Road to Kargil	143	(24)
8. The 2001-2 Indo-Pakistani Crisis	167	(20)
Exposing the Limits of Coercive Diplomacy
9. Lessons, Implications, and Policy Suggestions	187	(26)
Index	213