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Vipin Narang
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 19
Citations - 588
Vipin Narang is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nuclear weapon & Nuclear strategy. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 19 publications receiving 512 citations. Previous affiliations of Vipin Narang include Harvard University.
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Posturing for Peace? Pakistan's Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability
TL;DR: A probe of various regional power nuclear postures reveals that such postures, rather than simply the acquisition of nuclear weapons, can have differential effects on deterrence and stability dynamics as mentioned in this paper.
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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
TL;DR: Deterring Unequally I: A Large-n Analysis 222 Division of Regional Power Nuclear Postures and Crisis Behavior 253 Chapter 11 Conclusion 299 Bibliography 313 Index 333.
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Who Are These Belligerent Democratizers? Reassessing the Impact of Democratization on War
Vipin Narang,Rebecca M. Nelson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors show that the empirical data do not support Mansfield and Snyder's claim that states with weak institutions undergoing incomplete transitions to democracy are more likely to initiate an external war than other types of states.
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What Does It Take to Deter? Regional Power Nuclear Postures and International Conflict
TL;DR: In this article, the authors shift the unit of analysis away from nuclear weapons to postures, hypothesizing that different nuclear postures are distinct and generate differential deterrent power, particularly amongst the non- superpower states which comprise the lion's share of nuclear powers.
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Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation: How States Pursue the Bomb
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on how states pursue nuclear weapons and why they select particular strategies to develop them, and how these choices affect the international community's ability to prevent nuclear proliferation.