Nuclearisation Of Divided Nations: Pakistan-india-koreas

The book aims atunderstanding why the divided nations like India-Pakistan and two Koreas areconflict-prone. The book analyses that the possession of nuclear weapons andother Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in these countries will prove dangerousonly in the event of North Korea and Pakistan collapsing, thanks to theiressentially authoritarian and non-democratic political structures as well asthe obsession with the policy of forcibly changing the existing boundaries ofSouth Asia and the Korean peninsula. Indeed, this book shows how non-democraticnations have a natural tendency of not only to threaten the use of the WMD butalso to establish linkages among themselves. Accordingly, Nuclearisation Of Divided Nations dwells atlength with the growing military collaborations, both overt and covert, betweenPakistan and North Korea, with China playing the role of a great facilitator. Itis argued in this book that in order to meet the grave challenges arising fromthe growing alliance of these essentially despotic countries, democracies likeIndia and South Korea should develop stronger affinity between them and involveother democratic countries such as Japan and the United States in the task.