02649    a2200361   4500001001100000005001700011008004000028020001800068037003600086040000700122041000800129072001500137072001500152072001400167072001500181072001600196072001600212072001300228072001300241072001200254072001300266072001400279072001600293072002100309072002100330100001500351245009300366250000600459260003200465300001000497520176500507999001502272135170137120250317111642.0250312042018GB        2           eng    a9781351701372  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 41.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJWA2thema7 aJPS2thema7 aLB2thema7 aGTU2thema7 aJPWS2thema7 a1KBB2bisac7 aJWA2bic7 aJPS2bic7 aLB2bic7 aGTJ2bic7 aJPWS2bic7 a1KBB2bisac7 aPOL0000002bisac7 a327.730542bisac1 aTanvi Pate10aUnited States, India and the Global Nuclear OrderbNarrative Identity and Representation  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20180613  a264 p  bIn the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for ‘cap, reduce, eliminate’ under the Clinton administration was replaced by the implementation of the historic ‘civil nuclear deal’ in 2008 by Bush, a policy which continued under Obama’s administration. This book addresses the change in US nuclear foreign policy by focusing on three core categories of identity, inequality, and great power narratives. Building upon the theoretical paradigm of critical constructivism, the concept of the ‘state’ is problematised by focusing on identity-related questions arguing that the ‘state’ becomes a constructed entity standing as valid only within relations of identity and difference. Focusing on postcolonial principles, Pate argues that imperialism as an organising principle of identity/difference enables us to understand how difference was maintained in unequal terms through US nuclear foreign policy. This manifested in five great power narratives constructed around peace and justice; India-Pakistan deterrence; democracy; economic progress; and scientific development. Identities of ‘race’, ‘political economy’, and ‘gender’, in terms of ‘radical otherness’ and ‘otherness’ were recurrently utilised through these narratives to maintain a difference enabling the respective administrations to maintain ‘US’ identity as a progressive and developed western nation, intrinsically justifying the US role as an arbiter of the global nuclear order. A useful work for scholars researching identity construction and US foreign and security policies, US-India bilateral nuclear relations, South Asian nuclear politics, critical security, and postcolonial studies.  c7727d7727