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Policy Report. South Asia at the Nuclear Crossroads: US Policy Options Towards South Asian Nuclear Proliferation: The Role of Sanctions and Incentives

Report, Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Fourth Freedom Forum, and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University

March 2001

Author: Samina Ahmed, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 1998-2002

Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Science, Technology, and Public Policy; Managing the Atom

 

South Asia at the Nuclear Crossroads

A Joint Publication of the Managing the Atom Project at Harvard University, the Fourth Freedom Forum, and the Joan B. Kroc Institkute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

by Samina Ahmed and David Cortright

SOUTH ASIA AT A NUCLEAR CROSSROADS

- Challenges and Opportunities
- South Asian Nuclear Proliferation and U.S. National Security
- U.S. Nonproliferation Policy: Guidelines for the New Administration

SANCTIONS AND INCENTIVES

- Successful Influence Strategies
- Understanding Sanctions
- Using Incentives
- Carrots and Sticks

LEARNING FROM THE PAST

- The Perils of Inconsistency
- Imperfect Incentives
- Sanctioning Nuclear Proliferation
- From Pressure to Persuasion and Back Again
- Employing Carrots and Sticks

NUCLEAR TESTS AND THE US RESPONSE

- International Sanctions and Conditional Incentives
- Nonproliferation Progress
- Reversing Course

US POLICY OPTIONS

- Engaging with South Asia
- Potential Policy Options
- Arms Control and Nuclear Risk Reduction in South Asia
- Nonweaponization and Nondeployment
- A Nuclear-Free South Asia

PURSUING A NEW NONPROLIFERATION POLICY

- Identifying An Appropriate Influence Strategy
- Carrots and Sticks for India
- Carrots and Sticks for Pakistan
- Debt for Disarmament
- U.S. Policy and South Asia's Nuclear Future VII. Policy Recommendation

 

 

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Full text of this publication is available at:
http://www.fourthfreedom.org/php/t-sa-index.php?hinc=crossroad.hinc

For Academic Citation:

Ahmed, Samina and David Cortright. Policy Report. South Asia at the Nuclear Crossroads: US Policy Options Towards South Asian Nuclear Proliferation: The Role of Sanctions and Incentives. Cambridge, Mass.: Report for Managing the Atom Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Fourth Freedom Forum, and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, March 2001.

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