United States, India and the Global Nuclear Order

Tanvi Pate is a Lecturer in Security and Intelligence Studies at the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS), University of Buckingham. She is also associated with the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE), University of Cambridge, as a Panel Tutor in International Relations (IR). Her research interests encompass the discipline of IR with a focus on critical geopolitics, specifically concerning great power-rising power encounters in the context of India and the global order, India’s bilateral relations, and the politics of the Indo-Pacific.

• Introduction. 1 Reconceptualising Theory and Methodology of Foreign Policy: Narrative, State Identity and Action from a Critical Constructivist-Postcolonial Viewpoint 2 Creating American Nuclear Subjectivity: ‘Atoms for Peace’ in the Campaign for a New Global Nuclear Order 3 Is India a Capable Nuclear Power? The Changing Characteristics of India as the ‘Other’ (1947-1992) 4 Establishing a Post-Cold War Global Nuclear Order: The Bill Clinton Administration’s Conflicting Images of India as the ‘Other’ (1993-2001) 5 Nuclear America in a Post-9/11 World: India as the ‘Other’ in the Narratives of George W. Bush Administration (2001-2009) 6 America as the Leader of Non-Proliferation: The Continuation of US-India Nuclear Partnership during Barack Obama Administration (2009-2017) 7 Understanding the Complexity of Identity/Difference: Analysing Great Power Narratives of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations from a Postcolonial Viewpoint. Conclusion

"Tanvi Pate succeeds in convincing the reader about the importance of narrative. For example, she shows that we cannot understand the US nuclear foreign aid programme, which was dubbed ‘Atoms for Peace’, without placing it in the context of tropes about assisting democracies to achieve economic progress and global stability...Pate’s book has several thought-provoking and novel insights, such as the link between the Christian identity of the United States and the narrative of peace…". - Karthika Sasikumar, San Jose State University, San Jose, USA"The poststructuralist perspective employed in The United States, India and the Global Nuclear Order stresses the need to study narratives alongside counter-narratives, which highlights that great power narratives are organised around relations of race, political economy, and gender, through which inequalities are routinely reproduced in order to create difference." - Alicja Prochniak and Christian Nitoiu, Loughborough University, UK