An Impossible Game: Stable Nuclear Deterrence after the Indian and Pakistani Tests
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Mario E. Carranza is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A & M University-Kingsville. He has published articles in Asian Survey, The Journal of Peace Research, Latin American Perspectives, and International Politics, as well as a book (in Spanish) on the armed forces in Latin America. He has been a MacArthur postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [Editor’s Note: This article was completed prior to the most recent outbreak of fighting, on May 26, between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. These events provide a dramatic illustration of certain scenarios that Carranza discusses below as hypothetical possibilities.] AN IMPOSSIBLE GAME: STABLE NUCLEAR DETERRENCE AFTER THE INDIAN AND PAKISTANI TESTS
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تاریخ انتشار 2000