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Dangerous Deterrent : Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Conflict in South Asia /

Does the proliferation of nuclear weapons cause ongoing conflicts to diminish or to intensify? The spread of nuclear weapons to South Asia offers an opportunity to investigate this crucial question. Optimistic scholars argue that by threatening to raise the cost of war astronomically, nuclear weapon...

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Autor principal: Kapur, S. Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Colección:Studies in Asian Security
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1 The Problem of Proliferation
  • 2 Militarized Behavior During the South Asian Proliferation Process
  • 3 Territorial Preferences and Military Capabilities
  • 4 The Nonnuclear Period
  • 5 The De Facto Nuclear Period
  • 6 The Overt Nuclear Period
  • 7 Beyond South Asia
  • 8 Dangerous Deterrent
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index