Revisiting nuclear India : strategic culture and (in)security imaginary / Runa Das.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das, Runa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear weapons--India.

Nuclear weapons.

India--Military policy.

India.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, California : SAGE, [2015]

Summary:

A novel investigation in defining the country's nuclear policy choices since 1947 Interrogating the socially constructed nature of a nation's strategic culture to explain its nuclear security policies is not a common practice in the mainstream scholarships of strategic culture studies and International Relations. Revisiting Nuclear India is an effort to reorient strategic culture and international security studies in this direction. This book renders a novel line of theoretical and analytical approach to study a discursive link between the reconstructions of India's strategic cultures, insecurities, and India's nuclear policy choices from 1947 to the present.

Contents:

Discourse in international relations : situating India

Nation-making in colonial India

Political idealism and atomic science : 1947-1964

Defense preparedness and nuclear aggressiveness : 1964-1991

At the nuclear edge : 1991-998

Crossing the nuclear threshold and the neo-liberal turn : 1998-004

Neo-liberal strategic security/defense collaborations : post-2004

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

93-5150-223-6

93-5150-506-5