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State, Identity, and Representations of Danger: Competing World Views on Indian Nuclearisation.
| Title: | State, Identity, and Representations of Danger: Competing World Views on Indian Nuclearisation. |
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| Authors: | Das, Runa |
| Source: | Commonwealth & Comparative Politics; Mar2008, Vol. 46 Issue 1, p2-28, 27p |
| Abstract: | What explains India's nuclear detonation in May 1998? Some offer a realist, others a nuclear-apartheid, and some an identity-logic explanation for this detonation. My contention in this article is that the nuclear policy choice made by India in 1998, under the BJP government, is a culturally situated one and the logic of (in)securities that the state has used to justify this decision draws upon the ideological lenses of its then policy makers. To this extent, I compare how ideological perceptions of the post-colonial Indian state's leaders (evidenced under the Congress Party and the BJP) have articulated divergent notions of nationalisms, nationalist identities, and (in)securities perceived by the Indian state--thereby suggesting a link between political leaders' ideologies, articulation of statist identities, (in)securities, and nuclearisation policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | NUCLEAR nonproliferation, NATIONAL security, NATIONALISM, POLITICAL science, POLITICS & government of India, 1977-, MILITARY policy |
| Geographic Terms: | INDIA |
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| ISSN: | 14662043 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14662040701837953 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |