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Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia

The Compound Crisis of 1990

By P R Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Stephen P Cohen

Published March 20th 2003 by Routledge – 184 pages

Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

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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. Placing the crisis in the context of concurrent international events such as the fall of the Soviet Union, the authors draw out the lesson for present-day South Asian affairs. The book also makes a significant contribution to the debates on the role of nuclear weapons, confidence and security building strategies and the place of ethnicity in contemporary international relations.