India-Pakistan Nuclear Relationship

Dr Sridharan is Academic Director of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi. He is Ph.D from the same university where he studied political science. He has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, London School of Economics, and Institute for Developing Economies, Tokyo. Dr Sridharan’s research interests are comparative politics and political economy of development, party systems and coalition politics, and international relations. He is the author of The Political economy of Industrial promotion: Indian, Brazilian and Korean Electronics in Comparative Perspective; and co-editor of India’s Living Constitution : Ideas, Practices, Controversies, and India in the Global Software Industry.

• 1. Introduction: Subcontinental Perspectives on Deterrence Theory, International Relations Theory and South Asia E. Sridharan 2. International Relations Theory and the India-Pakistan Conflict E. Sridharan 3. Deterrence and Nuclear Use: Doctrines in South Asia Rifaat Hussain 4. Conceptualising Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Posture Rasul B. Rais 5. The China Factor in South Asia’s Nuclear Deterrence Swaran Singh 6. Theories of Deterrence and Nuclear Deterrence in the Subcontinent Arvind Kumar 7. Operation Vijay and Operation Parakram: The Victory of Theory? W.P.S. Sidhu 8. South Asia: The Irrelevance of Classical Nuclear Deterrence Theory Bharat Karnad 9. International Relations Theory and Minimum Deterrence Rajesh M. Basrur 10. The Threat of Unintended Use of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia Rajesh Rajagopalan 11. The Stability-Unstability Paradox in South Asia Varun Sahni