Summary An active member of the U. S. Foreign Service until 2001, William B. Milam possesses an exhaustive knowledge of the history and culture of…
Country or Region: Pakistan
Abstract In a security alliance since 2004 and ‘strategic partners’ since 2006, the United States and Pakistan for decades experienced major shifts in the nature…
Summary One fifth of the world’s people live in India and Pakistan. Looking back on their first fifty years of independence, leading specialists on South…
Summary South Asia, which consists of eight states of different sizes and capabilities, is characterized by high levels of insecurity at the inter-state, intra-state, and…
Summary South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the…
Abstract With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world’s second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the…
Abstract International safeguards is the system of measures put in place by the International Atomic Energy Agency and states to ensure nuclear programs remain dedicated…
Abstract Conventional wisdom states that the stability-instability paradox does not explain the effect of nuclear proliferation on the conflict propensity of South Asia, and that…
Abstract Governments are increasingly recognizing the problem posed by internally weak nuclear-capable states. The problem, however, is under-theorized. This article brings together literature on sovereignty…
Summary This book examines the puzzle of why some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others refrain from trying to do so or even renounce…
From the Publisher: Tactical Nuclear Weapons (TNWs), often referred to as “battlefield”, “sub-strategic”, or “non-strategic” nuclear weapons, usually have a plutonium core and are typically distinct…
From the Publisher: India and Pakistan have both never really accepted each other’s existence. Their ties have been characterised by a lingering hostility and a pronounced…
Summary The 2013-14 Strategic Asia volume examines the role of nuclear weapons in the grand strategies of key Asian states and assesses the impact of…
Abstract The paper argues that the existence of an ambiguous nuclear deterrence capability since the first half of the 1980s had emphasized the significance of…
Abstract Many experts consider nuclear terrorism the single greatest threat to U.S. security. The fear that a state might transfer nuclear materials to terrorists was…
