Former Research Fellow Moeed Yusuf Publishes Book on Nuclear Crisis Management

Moeed Yusuf, a former Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a new book on nuclear crisis management in South Asia.

The book, titled Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia (Stanford University Press), proposes an original theory of brokered bargaining to better understand regional nuclear crises, and specifically third-party roles in crisis management. Much of nuclear deterrence strategy remains rooted in Cold War models that do not take into account regional conflict. This book is the first to center an analysis of nuclear deterrence on third-party mediation. Drawing on the history of India-Pakistan crises, Yusuf describes the potential for third-party intervention to avert nuclear war, providing key lessons for the Korean peninsula and the Middle East.

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Yusuf is currently Associate Vice President of the Asia Center at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He is the editor of Pakistan’s Counterterrorism Challenge and Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia and co-editor of South Asia 2060 and Getting it Right in Afghanistan. For book excerpts and commentary, visit www.moeedyusuf.net.