Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia: The Compound Crisis of 1990

by Chari; P R

• ISBN13: 9780415307970
• ISBN10: 041530797X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-16
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990 and places the crisis in the context of concurrent international events.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
Compound and complex crises	2	(2)
After the crisis	4	(1)
An overview	5	(4)
The strategic context	9	(12)
The Soviets and the major non-regional powers	10	(2)
China	12	(1)
The United States	12	(2)
The subcontinental powers: India	14	(2)
Pakistan's unsure status	16	(1)
A world in tumult	17	(1)
Proliferation: once again, a cause	18	(2)
Global events and the 1990 crisis	20	(1)
A region in turmoil on the eve of crisis	21	(13)
Democratic instability: ``no good deed goes unpunished''	21	(1)
India	22	(5)
Pakistan	27	(5)
A deteriorating political environment	32	(2)
Kashmir: from Simla to chaos	34	(31)
The origins of the Kashmir conflict	36	(3)
The diplomatic record	39	(1)
The Second Kashmir War	40	(1)
The Simla Agreement	41	(1)
Kashmir recedes	42	(1)
The onset of crisis	43	(2)
1984--1988	45	(8)
Crisis and war aversion: Wular and Siachin	53	(4)
Explaining the Kashmir crisis	57	(4)
In search of an explanation	61	(4)
From domestic insurgency to international concern	65	(31)
Kashmir on the boil	65	(2)
Pakistan's varied responses	67	(3)
Yaqub: the ambiguous emissary	70	(4)
The war of words escalates	74	(2)
Pakistan responds	76	(1)
Tottering governments	77	(2)
The military crisis	79	(1)
Zarb-i-Momin and Brasstacks	80	(4)
Mahajan	84	(2)
Military movements	86	(4)
Outside involvement	90	(2)
The pressure increases	92	(2)
Diplomacy, or heightened crisis?	94	(2)
America's deepening engagement	96	(19)
A course of action	98	(1)
Prospects for American intervention	99	(2)
The Gates mission	101	(1)
The mission in Islamabad	102	(3)
The mission in New Delhi	105	(2)
Consequences	107	(2)
The Gates mission: an evaluation	109	(3)
Other countries	112	(1)
America's role: a preliminary assessment	112	(3)
1990 as a nuclear crisis	115	(22)
The history of regional nuclearization	116	(2)
Were there nuclear weapons?	118	(3)
Nuclear weapons in Indian and Pakistani strategy	121	(3)
The injection of nuclear weapons into the crisis	124	(2)
The Hersh account and its consequences	126	(8)
The nuclear issue and the crisis	134	(1)
Nuclear lessons	134	(3)
Lessons for the real world	137	(10)
Major conclusions	138	(4)
How real was the threat of war?	142	(2)
Toward the future	144	(3)
Notes	147	(22)
Index	169