In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation
as to whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested
their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South
Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most
comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Šumit Ganguly
and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation
of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's next
proliferators.
Ganguly begins with an outcome-based approach emphasizing the
results of militarized conflict. In his opinion, nuclear weapons
have prevented Indo-Pakistani disputes from blossoming into
full-scale war. Kapur counters with a process-based approach
stressing the specific pathways that lead to conflict and
escalation. From his perspective, nuclear weapons have fueled a
violent cycle of Pakistani provocation and Indian response, giving
rise to a number of crises that might easily have spun into chaos.
Kapur thus believes nuclear weapons have been a destabilizing force
in South Asia and could similarly affect other parts of the
world.
With these two major interpretations, Ganguly and Kapur tackle
all sides of an urgent issue that has profound regional and global
consequences. Sure to spark discussion and debate, "India,
Pakistan, and the Bomb" thoroughly maps the potential impact of
nuclear proliferation.
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