This volume addresses the core issues, problems and challenges that confront the Nuclear South Asia. It is a patent fact that both India and Pakistan are now nuclear weapon states. Critical to this fact is the question of threat perceptions, the peculiar national psyche in India and Pakistan, domestic settings in both countries and unresolved bilateral disputes including Kashmir. It is at this crucial juncture, a galaxy of scholars and specialists in this volume dispassionately examine alternative security paradigms essential for the de-escalation of nuclear threat not only to the peace, security and stability of the South Asia region but also to other volatile regions including the international peace, in general. Departing from the traditional understanding of and approaches to the nuclear question in South Asia, the volume focuses on threat perceptions, socio-psychological problems, and political and cultural factors which go a long way in determining the nuclear behaviour of India and Pakistan. The contributors have also examined in depth the reactions and responses of great powers – US, Russia, China and Japan – to the recent nuclear tests of India and Pakistan. Some of them have also taken into account the fallout of these tests in economic, strategic, security, military, political and cultural terms. The volume should prove immensely useful as a reliable guide to top policy-makers, nuclear decision-makers, strategic analysts as well as for academics and scholars engaged in nuclear, defence and strategic studies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.M. Jain
B.M. Jain an eminent political scientist is a Research Scientist (U.G.C.) at South Asia Studies Centre, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He is author of many books including Nuclear Politics in South Asia: In Search of Alternative Paradigm; South Asia in New World; Order (ed.), South Asian Security: Problems and Prospects; India and the United States, 1961-63; South Asia, India and the US. He has contributed over five dozen papers and articles in different research periodicals of eminence in India and abroad, including the national dailies. Dr. Jain has delivered lectures on a wide range of defence, security, arms control, foreign policy and international relations at more than a dozen universities in the U.S.A., U.K., Germany and the Netherlands. He has extensively participated in international and national conferences and seminars in India and abroad. Besides being Editor of the Indian Journal of Asian Affairs for last ten years, he is member of professional bodies such as International Political Science Association, Association of Third World Studies (U.S.A.), Asian Research Service (Hongkong), National Congress of Defence Studies etc.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Eva-Maria Hexamer
Eva-Maria Hexamer received her PhD from the Department of South Asian Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin, in 1987. From 1987 to 1990 she served as an Attache at the Embassy of the German Democratic Republic in India before returning to Humboldt University as a Lecturer. In 1994, she was a Senior Research Fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University. Since 1998 she is the acting Head of the Department of International Relations in Asia and Africa, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University.
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