{"product_id":"9789811569609","title":"India’s Evolving Deterrent Force Posturing in South Asia Temptation for Pre-emptive Strikes, Power Projection, and Escalation Dominance","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIndia’s Evolving Deterrent Force Posturing in South Asia\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eTemptation for Pre-emptive Strikes, Power Projection, and Escalation Dominance\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eZulfqar Khan | Zafar Khan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ World \/ Asian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book discusses India’s evolving deterrent force posturing in South Asia under the conceptual essentials of nuclear revolution when it comes to various combinations of conventional and nuclear forces development and the strategic implications it intentionally or unintentionally poses for the South Asian region. The book talks about how the contemporary restructuring of India’s deterrent force posture affects India’s nuclear strategy, in general, and how this in turn could affect the policies of its adversaries: China and Pakistan, in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthors discuss the motivations of such posturing that broadly covers India’s restructuring of its Nuclear Draft Doctrine (DND), the ballistic missile development program, including that of its Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system, and the possibility of conflicts between China-India and India-Pakistan, given their transforming strategic force postures and their recurring adversarial behavior against each other in the Southern Asian region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZulfqar Khan serves as a Professor, Head of Department at the Department of Strategic Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Professor Khan has wide experience as a research analyst in the Pakistan Ministry of Defence (MoD), several policy think tanks in Pakistan, and more recently National Defence University, Islamabad. He has contributed more than 45 research articles (both leading national and international journals), and a number of policy papers in this regard including his book on \u003ci\u003eNuclear Pakistan: Strategic Dimensions\u003c\/i\u003e (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZafar Khan is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of International Relations, University of Balochistan, Quetta. He has also taught at the Department of Strategic Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan. His papers have appeared in various international peer-reviewed journals. He has authored \u003ci\u003ePakistan’s Nuclear Policy: A Minimum Credible Deterrence\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and \u003ci\u003eNuclear Deterrencein South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17 December 2020\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789811569609\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e381\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53278227071116,"sku":"9789811569609","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789811569609.jpg?v=1787238378","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789811569609","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}