The United States, India and the Global Nuclear Order: Narrative Identity and Representation

ISBN-13: 9781138042520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 254 str.

Tanvi Pate

Opis

This book develops a link between historical and contemporary US nuclear foreign policy towards India and addresses this crucial relationship in order to ascertain how US nuclear policy towards India is constitutive of US leadership of the global nuclear order.

Recenzje

"Tanvi Pate succeeds in convincing the reader about the importance of narrative. For example, she shows that we cannot understand the US nuclear foreign aid programme, which was dubbed ‘Atoms for Peace’, without placing it in the context of tropes about assisting democracies to achieve economic progress and global stability...Pate’s book has several thought-provoking and novel insights, such as the link between the Christian identity of the United States and the narrative of peace…". - Karthika Sasikumar, San Jose State University, San Jose, USA

Spis treści

Introduction. 1 Reconceptualising Theory and Methodology of Foreign Policy: Narrative, State Identity and Action from a Critical Constructivist-Postcolonial Viewpoint 2 Creating American Nuclear Subjectivity: ‘Atoms for Peace’ in the Campaign for a New Global Nuclear Order 3 Is India a Capable Nuclear Power? The Changing Characteristics of India as the ‘Other’ (1947-1992)  4 Establishing a Post-Cold War Global Nuclear Order: The Bill Clinton Administration’s Conflicting Images of India as the ‘Other’ (1993-2001) 5 Nuclear America in a Post-9/11 World: India as the ‘Other’ in the Narratives of George W. Bush Administration (2001-2009) 6 America as the Leader of Non-Proliferation: The Continuation of US-India Nuclear Partnership during Barack Obama Administration (2009-2017) 7 Understanding the Complexity of Identity/Difference: Analysing Great Power Narratives of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama Administrations from a Postcolonial Viewpoint. Conclusion