Intro -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Pakistan and nuclear weapons -- Chapter 3: India as a Nuclear Power and Regional Security -- Chapter 4: Conceptualising Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia -- Chapter 5: Nuclear Weapons and Protracted Conflict -- Chapter 6: Nuclear Signalling and Deterrence in Crisis Situa-tions -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Bibliography
Summary
Christoph Bluth and Uzma Mumtaz scrutinize the atypical and seemingly paradoxical impact of nuclearization on the conflict between India and Pakistan. They demonstrate that the dominant paradigm used in the international relations literature is inadequate to explain the relations between India and Pakistan and develop a new explanation
