SPARRING ON THE SUBCONTINENT

Abstract

South Asian Security and International Nuclear Order: Creating a Robust Indo-Pakistani Nuclear Arms Control Regime, by Mario Esteban Carranza. Ashgate, 2009. 208 pages, $99.95.

Keywords:

• India
• Pakistan
• nuclear weapons
• arms control

Notes

1. S. Paul Kapur, “Ten Years of Nuclear Instability in a Nuclear South Asia,” International Security 33 (Fall 2008), pp. 71–94. For a rebuttal, see Sumit Ganguly, “Nuclear Stability in South Asia,” International Security 33 (Fall 2008), pp. 45–70.

2. Scott D. Sagan and Kenneth N. Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2002). For a discussion set in South Asia, see Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

3. See Ashok Kapur, India's Nuclear Option: Atomic Diplomacy and Decision Making (New York: Praeger, 1976); and Shyam Bhatia, India's Nuclear Bomb (Ghaziabad: Vikas, 1979).

4. Gordon Corera, Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

5. Sumit Ganguly, “Will Kashmir Stop India's Rise?” Foreign Affairs, July/August 2006, pp. 45–57.