Fearful Symmetry

India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons

By: Sumit Ganguly, Devin T. Hagerty

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Paperback | 27 June 2006

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With the nuclearization of the Indian subcontinent, Indo-Pakistani crisis behavior has acquired a deadly significance. The past two decades have witnessed no fewer than six crises against the backdrop of a vigorous nuclear arms race. Except for the Kargil war of 1998-9, all these events were resolved peacefully.

Nuclear war was avoided despite bitter mistrust, everyday tensions, an intractable political conflict over Kashmir, three wars, and the steady refinement of each side's nuclear capabilities. Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty carefully analyze each crisis, reviewing the Indian and Pakistani domestic political systems and key decisions during the relevant period.

This lucid and comprehensive study of the two nations' crisis behavior in the nuclear age is the first work on Indo-Pakistani relations to take systematic account of the role played by the United States in South Asia's security dynamics over the past two decades in the context of unipolarization, and formulates a blueprint for American policy toward a more positive and productive India-Pakistan relationship.

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"A timely review of how India and Pakistan have several times nearly allowed their grievances to lead to war - and how, each time, they managed to dodge disaster." - Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars "Explains a great deal about ... important events, many of them not well known, and about international rivalry in general. This is an important and informative study." - Robert Jervis, Columbia University "This book asks an important question: Why have India and Pakistan not fought a major war in the past two decade? It gives a crisp answer: nuclear weapons." - Kenneth Waltz, author of A Theory of International Politics " . . this is the first systemic, theoretically informed study of its kind of Indian and Pakistani crisis behaviour during South Asia's nuclear era... a book that makes a valuable contribution ot the scholarly literature on nuclear deterrence as well as South Asian politics."--ASIAN AFFAIRS, March 2008

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