Introduction : regional nuclear crises in a unipolar world -- Section I. Conceptual and theoretical issues. Understanding nuclearcrisis behavior : a survey of literature -- Setting up the inquiry : an introduction to brokered bargaining -- Section II. India-Pakistan crises in the overt nuclear era. The Kargil crisis -- The 2001/02 standoff -- The Mumbai crisis -- Section III. Lessons and implications. Brokered bargaining : observations and lessons for South Asia -- Beyond South Asia : generalizing the application of brokered bargaining -- Brokered bargaining : implications for theory and practice
Summary
This text theorizes third party mediation in crises between regional nuclear powers. Its relevance flows from two of the most significant international developments since the end of the Cold War: the emergence of regional nuclear rivalries; and the shift from the Cold War's bipolar context to today's unipolar international setting
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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