1st Edition
Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace
Introduction; 1 Evolving Technologies and Systemic Security Dilemma: US-China-India-Pakistan; 2 Indo-U.S. Evolving Strategic Partnership and Regional Stability; 3 India’s evolving nuclear strategy under the essentials of its minimum deterrence: Limitations and Challenges; 4 Pakistan’s Evolving Nuclear Policy: Pursuit of Balance sans Parity; 5 Crises Dynamics and Escalation Dominance Strategy in South Asia; 6 Balancing and Stabilizing South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Peace and Stability
Biography
Rizwana Abbasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Bahria University, Pakistan and a fellow of East West Institute, New York, USA. She is the author of Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime (2012).
Zafar Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic Studies at National Defence University, Pakistan. He is the author of Pakistan’s Nuclear Policy: A Minimum Credible Deterrence published by Routledge in 2014.
