Monographie

India's nuclear proliferation policy : the impact of secrecy on decision making, 1980-2010 / Gaurav Kampani

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • India's nuclear proliferation policy : the impact of secrecy on decision making, 1980-2010 / Gaurav Kampani
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • London New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, 2020
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XI-184 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Asian security studies
ISBN
  • 978-0-367-35628-6
  • 0-367-35628-7
  • 978-1-03-208467-1
EAN
  • 9781032084671 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • Asian security studies (Print) 2995-9152
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 358.390 954
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [167]-177. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • "This book examines India's nuclear programme and shows how secrecy inhibits learning in states and corrodes the capacity of decision makers to generate optimal policy choices. Focusing on clandestine Indian nuclear proliferation during 1980-2010, the book argues that efficient decision-making is dependent on strongly established knowledge actors, high information turnover, and the capacity of leaders to effectively monitor their agents. When secrecy concerns prevent states from institutionalizing these processes, leaders tend to rely more on heuristics and less on rational thought processes in choices involving matters of great political uncertainty and technical complexity. Conversely, decision-making improves as secrecy declines and policy choices become subject to higher levels of scrutiny and contestation. The arguments in this work draw on compelling evidence gathered from interviews conducted by the author, with interviewees including individuals who were involved in nuclear planning in India from 1980 to 2010, such as former cabinet and defence secretaries, the principal secretary to the prime minister, national security advisors, secretaries to the department of atomic energy, military chiefs of staff and their principal staff officers, and commanders of India's strategic (nuclear) forces. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, Asian politics, strategic studies and International Relations." (ed.)
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