eprintid: 8889
rev_number: 51
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datestamp: 2008-12-09 07:06:27
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type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Alam, Mohammed Badrul
title: In Pursuit of a Grand Strategy: An Explanation of Pakistan’s Evolving Nuclear Policy
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-702000
keywords: India , Pakistan , Nuclear Policy , Deterrence , Risk , Nuclear Doctrine
abstract: Explaining, investigating and analysing South Asian security scene in the post-Cold War takes into account overt nuclearisation by India and Pakistan in 1998 and the changing perceptions and requirements of national security as reflected in the policy formulations on nuclear strategy. For Pakistan, comprehensive deliberations on security problematique is addressed within the gambit of its newly acquired nuclear weapons and in the shaping and evolution of its nuclear doctrine. The paper addresses Pakistan's nuclear doctrine by critically examining the following aspects: (a) Conceptualising Risk paradigm and situating Pakistan's fragile regime (b) Nuclear First Strike Option versus No First Use (c) Institutional arrangements related to setting up of nuclear command (c) Delineating the notion of nuclear threshold (d) Examining viability of Limited War concept. Specific proposals floated by Pakistan toward strategic restraint regime will also be analyzed. Finally, the paper will address the current peace dialogue between India and Pakistan and how that could affect latter's strategic perspective in the long term.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2008
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00008889
portal_cluster_id: p-hdpaper
portal_order: 43
ppn_swb: 1647546532
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-88890
language: eng
bibsort: ALAMMOHAMMINPURSUITO2008
full_text_status: public
series: Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
volume: 43
number: Decemb
isbn: 1617-5069
issn: 1617-5069
citation:   Alam, Mohammed Badrul  (2008) In Pursuit of a Grand Strategy: An Explanation of Pakistan’s Evolving Nuclear Policy.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8889/1/HPSACP_ALAM.pdf