India and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime

The Perennial Outlier

A Vinod Kumar author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th Apr '14

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This book provides a holistic examination of India's relationship with the non-proliferation regime and its dominant structures.

The study explores the complexities of the regime as a functional system, and applies the Indian case study to understand the dynamics of state-regime interplays. The author highlights here the conceptual opacities that drive the structural crises of the regime, and the paradigm shifts that characterize its current churning.The book is a comprehensive study of India's relationship with the non-proliferation regime, and its transformative evolution from a perennial outlier to one seeking greater integration with the regime and its normative structures. The highlight of this study is its incisive conceptual analysis of the regime as a functional system and its structural complexities, which brings forth new insights on the regime's core ideas like non-proliferation and counter-proliferation. The book also provides an extensive non-Western narrative on the concept of counter-proliferation and its conceivable role and influence in the regime. It breaks new ground in explaining India's quest for an anti-proliferation strategy, which could determine its status and future in the emerging global nuclear order. It will be a substantial contribution to the literature on India's approach towards non-proliferation, counter-proliferation and disarmament, and will enhance the understanding of the impact of the regime's normative structures on India's nuclear decisions.

'This book successfully brings out a whole gamut of … complex questions to the fore, answers to which have remained fluid, with ever evolving newer analyses and interpretations.' Swaran Singh, H-Net

ISBN: 9781107056626

Dimensions: 237mm x 160mm x 18mm

Weight: 550g

247 pages