India's National Security A Reader

by Bajpai, Kanti P.; Pant, Harsh V.

• ISBN13: 9780198081753
• ISBN10: 0198081758
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Kanti P. Bajpai, Professor and Vice Dean Research, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore,Harsh V. Pant, Reader, International Relations, Department of Defence Studies, King's College, London


Kanti P. Bajpai, Professor and Vice Dean Research, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Harsh V. Pant, Reader, International Relations, Department of Defence Studies, King's College London.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Publishers' Acknowledgements
Introduction, Kanti P. Bajpai and Harsh V. Pant
PART I: INSURGENCY, TERRORISM, AND STATE RESPONSES
1. Evolution of the Indian Army's Counterinsurgency Doctrine, Rajesh Rajagopalan
2. Endgame in Punjab: 1988-93, K.P.S. Gill
3. Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir in Theory and Practice, Praveen Swami
4. Does Counterinsurgency Theory Apply in Northeast India?, Bethany Lacina
5. 'Naxalism': The Retreat of Civil Governance, Ajai Sahni
PART II: NUCLEAR HISTORY
6. The Cultural Context of Moralpolitik: The Traditional Indian Statecraft, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Atom Bomb, Bharat Karnad
7. Indian Nuclear Policy: 1964-98-A Personal Recollection, K. Subrahmanyam
8. The Bombs That Roared: 1998, George Perkovich
PART III: NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND STRATEGIC STABILITY
9. Nuclear Stability in South Asia, Sumit Ganguly
10. Ten Years of Instability in a Nuclear South Asia, S. Paul Kapur
11. A Cold Start for Hot Wars? The Indian Army's New Limited War Doctrine, Walter C. Ladwig III
PART IV: DEFENCE REFORMS
12. Failing to Deliver: Post-crises Defence Reforms in India, 1998-2010, Anit Mukherjee
About the Editors and Contributors
Index