Strategic Culture, Representations of Nuclear (In)Securities, and the Government of India

A Critical Constructivist Perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6233406
AutoresRuna Das (0000-0002-0692-5253, University of Minnesota, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume17
Fascículo2
Páginas123-144
Data de publicação2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0218-5377 • E-ISSN: 1750-7812
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02185370903077402
OpenAlexW2058244619
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas18

In this article, I use Alastair Johnston's concept of strategic culture re-visited through a critical constructivist perspective to analyze the representations of India's strategic culture and nuclear policy choices. In doing so, I explore how the representational practices of (and the mutually-constitutive relation between) India's nationalist identity/Self and its strategic environment, facilitated via its political leaders' ideological lenses, have produced shifting representations of India's strategic environment to justify the nation's nuclear policy choices. In exploring this representational linkage between India's strategic environment and its nuclear (in)securities, I am cognizant that anarchy is a challenge facing India's task of nation-making and thus realism serves as a partially valid explanation for understanding the logic proliferation. Yet, my study demonstrates how culturally guided interpretations of what constitutes the Indian Self have divergently re-interpreted India's strategic environment and (in)securities to define the nation's nuclear policy choices

Constructivism (international relations · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · International relations · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Strategic planning · Strategic thinking · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Philosophy