9781107056626

India and the NuclearNon-proliferation RegimeThe Perennial OutlierA. Vinod KumarA. Vinod Kumar is Associate Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), NewDelhi, and visiting faculty at the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies (IFPS), University of Calcutta.

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Size : 150mm x 230mm

Pages : xviii+233pp

Year : 2014

Binding : Hardback

ISBN : 9781107056626

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Numerous behavioural and systemic factors havebeen cited to explain India’s nuclear decisions,though the influence of normative instruments ofnon-proliferation and the overarching regime onits nuclear policies has not received sufficientattention. This book seeks to address this gapthrough a holistic examination of India’srelationship with the non-proliferation regime andits dominant structures. The study explores thecomplexities of the regime as a functional system,and applies the Indian case study to understandthe dynamics of state–regime interplays. Bydissecting its core frameworks like non-proliferationand counterproliferation, A. Vinod Kumar highlightsthe conceptual opacities that drive the structuralcrises of the regime, and the paradigm shifts thatcharacterize its current churning.

India and the NuclearNon-proliferationRegimeThe Perennial OutlierA. Vinod Kumar

The book describes India as a unique case of anoutlier surviving outside the regime’s overarchingsystem, as a nuclear-capable state with prolongedrecord of resistance (and selective adherence), butending up seeking opportunities to engage with itsnormative structures. The ideological and policyshifts that had shaped India’s transformativejourney from a perennial outlier to one seekinggreater integration with the regime, though, alsoexemplifies the underlying strategic paradoxes anddogmatic incongruities. The book assesses howthese dynamics will determine India’s role in globalanti-proliferation and its status in the emergingglobal nuclear order.

Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction; 2. From Non-proliferationto Counterproliferation: The Regime’s ConceptualCrisis; 3. The State and the Regime: The ComplexInterplay of Actors, Norms and Interests; 4. India,NPT and the Non-proliferation Regime; 5. TheRoutes to Nuclear Disarmament: An IndianPerspective; 6. Counter-proliferation: The Questfor an Indian Strategy; 7. India’s Participation inthe Proliferation Security Initiative: The Counter-proliferation Case Study; 8. India’s Role in GlobalAnti-proliferation: The Post Nuclear Deal Agenda9. Conclusion • Select Bibliography • Index

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