This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India
and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990.
Placing the crisis in the context of concurrent international events such as the
fall of the Soviet Union, the authors draw out the lesson for present-day South
Asian affairs. The book also makes a significant contribution to the debates on
the role of nuclear weapons, confidence and security building strategies and the
place of ethnicity in contemporary international relations.