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In the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India
witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for 'cap, reduce,
eliminate' under the Clinton administration was replaced by the
implementation of the historic 'civil nuclear deal' in 2008 by
Bush, a policy which continued under Obama's administration. This
book addresses the change in US nuclear foreign policy by focusing
on three core categories of identity, inequality, and great power
narratives. Building upon the theoretical paradigm of critical
constructivism, the concept of the 'state' is problematised by
focusing on identity-related questions arguing that the 'state'
becomes a constructed entity standing as valid only within
relations of identity and difference. Focusing on postcolonial
principles, Pate argues that imperialism as an organising principle
of identity/difference enables us to understand how difference was
maintained in unequal terms through US nuclear foreign policy. This
manifested in five great power narratives constructed around peace
and justice; India-Pakistan deterrence; democracy; economic
progress; and scientific development. Identities of 'race',
'political economy', and 'gender', in terms of 'radical otherness'
and 'otherness' were recurrently utilised through these narratives
to maintain a difference enabling the respective administrations to
maintain 'US' identity as a progressive and developed western
nation, intrinsically justifying the US role as an arbiter of the
global nuclear order. A useful work for scholars researching
identity construction and US foreign and security policies,
US-India bilateral nuclear relations, South Asian nuclear politics,
critical security, and postcolonial studies.
In the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India
witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for 'cap, reduce,
eliminate' under the Clinton administration was replaced by the
implementation of the historic 'civil nuclear deal' in 2008 by
Bush, a policy which continued under Obama's administration. This
book addresses the change in US nuclear foreign policy by focusing
on three core categories of identity, inequality, and great power
narratives. Building upon the theoretical paradigm of critical
constructivism, the concept of the 'state' is problematised by
focusing on identity-related questions arguing that the 'state'
becomes a constructed entity standing as valid only within
relations of identity and difference. Focusing on postcolonial
principles, Pate argues that imperialism as an organising principle
of identity/difference enables us to understand how difference was
maintained in unequal terms through US nuclear foreign policy. This
manifested in five great power narratives constructed around peace
and justice; India-Pakistan deterrence; democracy; economic
progress; and scientific development. Identities of 'race',
'political economy', and 'gender', in terms of 'radical otherness'
and 'otherness' were recurrently utilised through these narratives
to maintain a difference enabling the respective administrations to
maintain 'US' identity as a progressive and developed western
nation, intrinsically justifying the US role as an arbiter of the
global nuclear order. A useful work for scholars researching
identity construction and US foreign and security policies,
US-India bilateral nuclear relations, South Asian nuclear politics,
critical security, and postcolonial studies.
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