Book Review on <i>Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime</i>

Abstract

Pakistan has always been the focus of international community, strategists, analysts, and academic scholars on various issues more especially on the nuclear issue since Pakistan has embarked its journey from covert to overt nuclearisation of South Asia. Any work in relation to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program ranging from its nuclear policy to its nuclear security has gained a great significance in the realm of politics and international studies. Rizwana Abbasi’s maiden volume entitled, Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime is a welcome contribution that would certainly be embraced by the Pakistani security planners and strategic community in general and the wider international audience in particular. The key aim of this book is that norms, values, and regime still matter despite the presence and influence of hard core realism and neo-realism.