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The United States, India and the global nuclear order : narrative identity and representation
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The United States, India and the global nuclear order : narrative identity and representation / Tanvi Pate.
ISBN
131517362X
1351701363
1351701371
135170138X
9781315173627
9781351701365
9781351701372
9781351701389
1138042528
9781138042520
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"In the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for cap, reduce, eliminate under the Clinton administration was replaced by the implementation of the historic civil nuclear deal in 2008 by Bush, a policy which continued under Obamas administration. This book addresses the change in US nuclear foreign policy by focusing on three core categories of identity, inequality, and great power narratives. Building upon the theoretical paradigm of critical constructivism, the concept of the state is problematised by focusing on identity-related questions arguing that the state becomes a constructed entity standing as valid only within relations of identity and difference. Focusing on postcolonial principles, Pate argues that imperialism as an organising principle of identity/difference enables us to understand how difference was maintained in unequal terms through US nuclear foreign policy. This manifested in five great power narratives constructed around peace and justice; India-Pakistan deterrence; democracy; economic progress; and scientific development. Identities of race, political economy, and gender, in terms of radical otherness and otherness were recurrently utilised through these narratives to maintain a difference enabling the respective administrations to maintain US identity as a progressive and developed western nation, intrinsically justifying the US role as an arbiter of the global nuclear order. A useful work for scholars researching identity construction and US foreign and security policies, US-India bilateral nuclear relations, South Asian nuclear politics, critical security, and postcolonial studies."--Provided by publisher.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: The United States, India and the global nuclear order London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group [2018]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in US foreign policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-244) and index.
Contents
Reconceptualising theory and methodology of foreign policy : narrative, state identity and action from a critical constructivist-postcolonial viewpoint
Creating American nuclear subjectivity : atoms for peace in the campaign for a new global nuclear order
Is India a capable nuclear power? : the changing characteristics of India as the other (1947-1992)
Establishing a post-cold war global nuclear order : the Bill Clinton administration's conflicting images of India as the other (1993-2001)
Nuclear America in a post-9/11 world : India as the other in the narratives of George W. Bush administration (2001-2009)
America as the leader of non-proliferation : the continuation of US-India nuclear partnership during Barack Obama administration (2009-2017)
Understanding the complexity of identity/difference : analysing great power narratives of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations from a postcolonial viewpoint.
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