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Pakistan and the Bomb: Public Opinion and nuclear Options
The cold war showed decisively that nuclear weapons programs create their own military, bureaucratic, and economic constituences in whose self-interest it is to advocate the continuation of these programs. The roots of nuclear arms races are as much domestic as based on security threats and political rivalries between the participating states. Special interest groups created by the acquisition of nuclear weapons dominate not only in the established nuclear weapons powers, but also in the threshold countries involved in their development. In most cases political leaders have only limited control or no control at all over the "nuclear barons."
Such "nuclear estates" also exist in South Asia. In an earlier study, India and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996), David Cortright and his collaborators showed how widely spread among the Indian elites are the pronuclear views of its military-scientific estate. Cortright, Samina Ahmed, and other contributors make similar findings, stressing especially the strong position of the Pakistani army, in this sequel to India and the Bombon the South Asian nuclear dilemma. Like the earlier volume, it is based on unique elite interviews conducted under the auspices of the Fourth Freedom Forum and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. [Raimo Väyrynen]
Samina Ahmed is the South Asia project Director of the International Crisis Group.
David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
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