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The Stability-Instability Paradox: How Nuclear Weapons Incentivize Irregular Warfare

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:53:45
Publish Date: 2024-01-12 10:09:20
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Do nuclear weapons play a stabilizing role by discouraging nuclear-armed states to go to war with one another? If so, are these states then incentivized to pursue their objectives vis-à-vis one another by indirect means and proxy conflict? These are the parallel dynamics described as the stability-instability paradox. Our guests on this episode, Professor Sumit Ganguly and Dr. Tricia Bacon, describe the theoretical underpinnings of this paradox and explore a real-world example—the 1999 Kargil conflict and the broader pattern of the India-Pakistan rivalry—to trace the impact of nuclear weapons on irregular warfare.

 

Intro music: "Unsilenced" by Ketsa

Outro music: "Launch" by Ketsa

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