Karthika Sasikumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karthika Sasikumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karthika |
| FAMILY NAME | Sasikumar |
| SIGNATURE | SASIKUMAR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
India’s Surgical Strikes
In September 2016, militants who were allegedly backed by Pakistan attacked an Indian Army camp in Uri. The government in New Delhi was facing important regional elections. It faced intense public pressure to muster a military response. Such a response, however, ran the risk of triggering a nuclear exchange. Ten days after the Uri attack, India reported that it had carried out ‘surgical strikes’ on terrorist training camps in Pakistan-controlled …
Political and Military Sociology
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Who Are the Refugees? A Demographic Analysis -- 2 Serbia and the Migration Crisis: The Power of Framing -- 3 From Ambiguous Refugees to Potential Citizens: Turkey's Domestic and International Challenges and Its Syrians -- 4 The Ex-Yugoslav States and the 2015 Refugee/Migrant Crisis: Victims or Opportunists? -- 5 Policing the Mediterranea…
A theoretical turn in the study of India-US relations
The relationship between India and the United States has been a complicated one. These three well-researched books furnish readers with new insights into the dynamics of the relationship. They demo
Partition and its legacies
These three solidly researched books all deal with partition in South Asia. All three provide chilling descriptions of the fallout of partition on ordinary human beings, and seek to draw out lesson
Managing India's nuclear forces
In this timely and thoughtful book, Verghese Koithara's starting assumption is: ‘People are the key to the successful operation of a nuclear force’ (p. 157). In the rest of the book, Koithara shows
The India-U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
The U.S.-India civil nuclear energy agreement triggered a contentious debate in India from 2005 to 2008. Regional political actors played crucial and unanticipated roles in the debate. We present explanations for the positions adopted by the main actors and the level of contention. We find that parties’ positions were driven not by ideology but by the compulsions of coalition politics
Debating India's Pathway to Nuclearization
October 01 2012 Debating India's Pathway to Nuclearization Gaurav Kampani, Gaurav Kampani Gaurav Kampani is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Karthika Sasikumar, Karthika Sasikumar Karthika Sasikumar is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Jose State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Jas…
Documenting disarmament
State agency in the time of the global war on terror
The evolving international counter-terrorism regime obliges and permits countries to make changes in their domestic and foreign policies. At the same time, policy-makers in national capitals respond creatively to the global regime. By examining India's response to the evolving international regime on terrorism, I will demonstrate the mechanism through which the regime is influencing Indian policy: by setting up an identity that the country can as…
India's Debated Nuclear Policy
India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security. By Karsten Frey. London; New York: Routledge, 2006. 238 pages. Hardcover, $39.95. India's Nuclear Policy. By Bharat Karnad, Westport, CT.: Praeger Securi
Canada (En)Counters Terrorism
This paper examines the role of identity in shaping counter-terrorism policy in Canada. We show that identity functions in three ways: constitutively by defining the range of choices a state is likely to consider; strategically by being a resource to buttress arguments based in economic or sovereignty interests; and heuristically by using identity as a marker for risk. This three-faceted explanation helps explain why, despite close economic, soci…
Canadian policy on nuclear co-operation with India
India's Emergence as a "Responsible" Nuclear Power
In 2005, India and the United States announced a nuclear “deal” that would seek to clarify India’s ambiguous status in the nuclear order. The sole superpower appeared to be recognizing India’s status as a nuclear-armed state by opening up the possibility of nuclear cooperation. This announcement represented the fruit of many years of careful Indian diplomacy aimed at establishing its identity as a responsible possessor of nuclear weapons and forg…
India's Emergence as a "Responsible" Nuclear Power
In 2005, India and the United States announced a nuclear “deal” that would seek to clarify India’s ambiguous status in the nuclear order. The sole superpower appeared to be recognizing India’s status as a nuclear-armed state by opening up the possibility of nuclear cooperation. This announcement represented the fruit of many years of careful Indian diplomacy aimed at establishing its identity as a responsible possessor of nuclear weapons and forg…
Canada (En)Counters Terrorism
This paper examines the role of identity in shaping counter-terrorism policy in Canada. We show that identity functions in three ways: constitutively by defining the range of choices a state is likely to consider; strategically by being a resource to buttress arguments based in economic or sovereignty interests; and heuristically by using identity as a marker for risk. This three-faceted explanation helps explain why, despite close economic, soci…
State agency in the time of the global war on terror
The evolving international counter-terrorism regime obliges and permits countries to make changes in their domestic and foreign policies. At the same time, policy-makers in national capitals respond creatively to the global regime. By examining India's response to the evolving international regime on terrorism, I will demonstrate the mechanism through which the regime is influencing Indian policy: by setting up an identity that the country can as…
India’s Surgical Strikes
In September 2016, militants who were allegedly backed by Pakistan attacked an Indian Army camp in Uri. The government in New Delhi was facing important regional elections. It faced intense public pressure to muster a military response. Such a response, however, ran the risk of triggering a nuclear exchange. Ten days after the Uri attack, India reported that it had carried out ‘surgical strikes’ on terrorist training camps in Pakistan-controlled …
The India-U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
The U.S.-India civil nuclear energy agreement triggered a contentious debate in India from 2005 to 2008. Regional political actors played crucial and unanticipated roles in the debate. We present explanations for the positions adopted by the main actors and the level of contention. We find that parties’ positions were driven not by ideology but by the compulsions of coalition politics
Debating India's Pathway to Nuclearization
October 01 2012 Debating India's Pathway to Nuclearization Gaurav Kampani, Gaurav Kampani Gaurav Kampani is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Karthika Sasikumar, Karthika Sasikumar Karthika Sasikumar is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Jose State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Jas…
Canadian policy on nuclear co-operation with India
India's Emergence as a "Responsible" Nuclear Power
In 2005, India and the United States announced a nuclear “deal” that would seek to clarify India’s ambiguous status in the nuclear order. The sole superpower appeared to be recognizing India’s status as a nuclear-armed state by opening up the possibility of nuclear cooperation. This announcement represented the fruit of many years of careful Indian diplomacy aimed at establishing its identity as a responsible possessor of nuclear weapons and forg…
India's Debated Nuclear Policy
India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security. By Karsten Frey. London; New York: Routledge, 2006. 238 pages. Hardcover, $39.95. India's Nuclear Policy. By Bharat Karnad, Westport, CT.: Praeger Securi
Canada (En)Counters Terrorism
This paper examines the role of identity in shaping counter-terrorism policy in Canada. We show that identity functions in three ways: constitutively by defining the range of choices a state is likely to consider; strategically by being a resource to buttress arguments based in economic or sovereignty interests; and heuristically by using identity as a marker for risk. This three-faceted explanation helps explain why, despite close economic, soci…
State agency in the time of the global war on terror
The evolving international counter-terrorism regime obliges and permits countries to make changes in their domestic and foreign policies. At the same time, policy-makers in national capitals respond creatively to the global regime. By examining India's response to the evolving international regime on terrorism, I will demonstrate the mechanism through which the regime is influencing Indian policy: by setting up an identity that the country can as…
Documenting disarmament
Debating India's Pathway to Nuclearization
October 01 2012 Debating India's Pathway to Nuclearization Gaurav Kampani, Gaurav Kampani Gaurav Kampani is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Karthika Sasikumar, Karthika Sasikumar Karthika Sasikumar is Assistant Professor of Political Science at San Jose State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Jas…
Managing India's nuclear forces
In this timely and thoughtful book, Verghese Koithara's starting assumption is: ‘People are the key to the successful operation of a nuclear force’ (p. 157). In the rest of the book, Koithara shows
The India-U.S. Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
The U.S.-India civil nuclear energy agreement triggered a contentious debate in India from 2005 to 2008. Regional political actors played crucial and unanticipated roles in the debate. We present explanations for the positions adopted by the main actors and the level of contention. We find that parties’ positions were driven not by ideology but by the compulsions of coalition politics
Partition and its legacies
These three solidly researched books all deal with partition in South Asia. All three provide chilling descriptions of the fallout of partition on ordinary human beings, and seek to draw out lesson
Political and Military Sociology
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Who Are the Refugees? A Demographic Analysis -- 2 Serbia and the Migration Crisis: The Power of Framing -- 3 From Ambiguous Refugees to Potential Citizens: Turkey's Domestic and International Challenges and Its Syrians -- 4 The Ex-Yugoslav States and the 2015 Refugee/Migrant Crisis: Victims or Opportunists? -- 5 Policing the Mediterranea…
A theoretical turn in the study of India-US relations
The relationship between India and the United States has been a complicated one. These three well-researched books furnish readers with new insights into the dynamics of the relationship. They demo
India’s Surgical Strikes
In September 2016, militants who were allegedly backed by Pakistan attacked an Indian Army camp in Uri. The government in New Delhi was facing important regional elections. It faced intense public pressure to muster a military response. Such a response, however, ran the risk of triggering a nuclear exchange. Ten days after the Uri attack, India reported that it had carried out ‘surgical strikes’ on terrorist training camps in Pakistan-controlled …
Political science (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (4 works) · Physics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)