{"id":46520,"date":"2020-03-25T12:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=41974"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:12:28","slug":"sarkar-contributes-to-h-diplo-roundtable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2020\/03\/25\/sarkar-contributes-to-h-diplo-roundtable\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarkar contributes to H-Diplo Roundtable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jayita Sarkar<\/a>, Assistant Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently contributed to a\u00a0roundtable o<\/a>n H-Diplo as part of Nicholas Miller\u2019s book,\u00a0Stopping the Bomb.\u00a0<\/i>The roundtable was part of a review of Miller\u2019s book, and apart from Sarkar, the other reviewers included Elizabeth Saunders (Georgetown), Matthew Fuhrmann (Texas A&M), Andrew Coe (Vanderbilt), and Julia MacDonald (Denver)<\/span><\/p>\n

From the introduction of the review:<\/p>\n

In praising the book\u2019s theoretical approach, Jayita Sarkar notes that Miller walks a difficult line in making a \u201crationalist\u201d argument that also \u201cincorporates the role of domestic politics, bureaucratic drivers, and norms while highlighting, but not overdetermining, the influence of national and international security concerns.\u201d Sarkar concludes that Miller pulls off this balancing act successfully, and \u201calmost bridges the gap between constructivism and neoclassical realism in the literature on the politics of nuclear weapons, which in and of itself is no small feat.\u201d On the empirical side, MacDonald praises the book\u2019s empirical richness, noting in particular that \u201cthe qualitative chapters on the effectiveness of U.S. policies are persuasive, and the archival evidence documenting U.S. government behavior vis-\u00e0-vis France, Taiwan,Pakistan, and Iran is impressive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarkar approaches the domino question from the angle of the Cold War\u2014when another version of domino theory became famous. She asks, \u201cwas the fear that nuclear dominoes generated in U.S. policymakers completely unrelated from the fear of Communist dominoes in the Cold War?\u201d She also raises the important question of whether there was a \u201cNorth-South dimension\u201d given that \u201cthe Chinese and the Indian nuclear tests triggered such acute fears of nuclear dominoes in U.S. policymakers in ways which the British and the French nuclear tests, and Israel\u2019s nuclear weapons capability never did.\u201d Coe raises a very different Cold War-related critique, arguing that Miller \u201cneglects\u201d the role of the Soviet Union. He argues, based on co-authored work with Jane Vaynman, that the USSR and the United States \u201ccolluded\u201d in the universal nonproliferation approach Miller identifies<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read full text\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

H-Diplo<\/a>\u00a0is a network for diplomatic history, international affairs, foreign policy, international relations, peacekeeping studies, nuclear history and policy studies, and transnational studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jayita Sarkar<\/a>\u00a0is Assistant Professor at Boston University\u2019s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where she is also the founding director of the\u00a0Global Decolonization Initiative<\/a>. She teaches diplomatic and political history at graduate and undergraduate levels. Professor Sarkar\u2019s areas of research expertise are 20th century South Asia, history of U.S. foreign relations, politics of nuclear technologies, and connected partitions. Her book,\u00a0Ploughshares & Swords: India\u2019s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War<\/em>, (Forthcoming, Cornell University Press, 2022), examines the first forty years of India\u2019s nuclear program through the prisms of geopolitics and technopolitics. Read more about Professor Sarkar on her faculty profile<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jayita Sarkar contributed to a\u00a0roundtable on H-Diplo on Nicholas Miller\u2019s book,\u00a0Stopping the Bomb<\/I>.\u00a0The review is now available online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8432],"tags":[11480,8883,9998],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47233,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46520\/revisions\/47233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}