South Asia's Cold War: Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective

摘要

Are we justified in limiting our interpretation of the cold war to just one conflict? Basrur's new book, South Asia's Cold War, Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective, offers an insightful analysis on the nature and history of cold wars between nuclear armed states. His cold war analogy and the need for a comparative approach in studying these wars offer a richer and more nuanced perspective of the true meaning of a cold war as opposed to viewing it solely through the prism of superpower rivalry. This distinction is an important one.