Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia
Language: English
Published by The Henry L. Stimson Center, 2004
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- Title
- Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia
- Author
- Michael Krepon, Rodney W. Jones, and Ziad Haider, editors
- Publisher
- The Henry L. Stimson Center
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0974725587
- ISBN 13
- 9780974725581
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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About the Author
Krepon's areas of interest are South Asia and the Kashmir dispute, nuclear risk reduction, strategic arms control, missile defenses, and the utilization of confidence-building measures to alleviate tensions and promote reconciliation. He previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Carter Administration, and the US House of Representatives, assisting Congressman Norm Dicks.
He is the author of Strategic Stalemate, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics (1984), Arms Control in the Reagan Administration (1989), and co-editor of Verification and Compliance, A Problem-Solving Approach (1988), Commercial Observation Satellites and International Security (1990), The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification (1991), Open Skies, Arms Control and Cooperative Security (1992), Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia (1995), Global Confidence-Building: New Tools for Troubled Regions (1999), and Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense, and the Nuclear Future (2003),. His newest books from the Stimson Center are Escalation Control and the Nuclear Option in South Asia (Henry L. Stimson Center, 2004), and Space Assurance or Space Dominance? The Case Against Weaponizing Space (Henry L. Stimson Center, 2003).
Krepon travels regularly to India, Pakistan, China, Japan, and Russia. He is the author of over 300 articles. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, Washington Post, and many other publications. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College and The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also studied Arabic at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. He teaches in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia.
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