LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:6 June 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Stability in South Asia:
The Significance of Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors

Selvi Bunce

Abstract

This paper will define South Asia as the states included in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC); Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, the Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. India and Pakistan are the only two states in this regional subsystem that possess nuclear capabilities. This paper will use process tracing to determine how the development of nuclear weapons has stabilized the region over time. This phenomenon is best observed through the role nuclear weapons have played in the Indo-Pakistani dispute over Kashmir, which has been the main destabilizing conflict in the region.

Keywords: Stability of peace, significance of nuclear weapons, peace in South Asia, role of non-State players

Stability of Post-Cold War South Asia

The stability of post-Cold War South Asia is dependent on nuclear capabilities because the development of nuclear weapons in South Asia fosters stability by making the costs greater than the benefits of war, therein creating a mutual vulnerability that makes military victory impossible, and generating political consequences that force actors into rationality. While the existence of nuclear weapons is the main independent variable leading to the stability of South Asia, non-state actors and rising powers play a role in both the peacefulness and durability of stability in South Asia.

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