Liquid crystals: the fourth state of matter

Abstract

Wars without end? -- 1984: India, Pakistan, and preventive war fears -- Threat perceptions, military modernization and a crisis -- The 1990 Kashmir crisis -- Out of the closet: the 1998 nuclear tesets crisis -- The road to Kargil -- The 2001-2 Indo-Pakistani crisis: exposing the limits of coercive diplomacy -- Lessons, implications, and policy suggestions.