Brasstacks and Beyond: Perception and Management of Crisis in South Asia

Author :

Šumit Ganguly

,

Kanti P. Bajpai

,

P.R. Chari

,

Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema

,

Stephen P. Cohen

Publisher:

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

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Publisher

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

Publication Year 1995
ISBN-13

9788173041303

ISBN-10 817304130X
Binding

Hardcover

Number of Pages 205 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7
Weight (grms) 431
Subject

Textbooks & Study Guides

Indo-Pakistan relations have remained crisis prone over the last decade--the most serious emanating from the Brasstacks Exercise (1986-87), which carried within it the most imminent likelihood of another Indo-Pak War. This study is the first systematic attempt to analyse the Indian, Pakistani and American perceptions of the crisis by scholars from these countries.The key findings are that the crisis probably led Pakistan to "weaponise" its nuclear programme, that India might have had larger, open ended goals, that intelligence available to all the three countries was substantial but became questionable at critical junctures; and that hotline communications between India and Pakistan were not used due to suspicion about each others intentions. The study also makes prescriptive suggestions to avoid such confrontations in future.

Šumit Ganguly

Sumit Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indiana Cultures and Civilizations and Director of the India Studies Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He is an expert on the international relations of the countries of South Asia; ethnic, nationalist, and religious violence; and nuclear politics

Kanti P. Bajpai

P.R. Chari

Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema

Stephen P. Cohen

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