#Nukefest2017 Hot Takes: Potential Indian Nuclear First Use?
At the 2017 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference in Washington D.C., Prof. Vipin Narang, an expert on South Asian nuclear strategy at the Massachusetts Institute of […]
Tanvi Kulkarni
Tanvi Kulkarni is a PhD candidate at the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She specializes in nuclear weapons politics and confidence building measures, particularly in South Asia. Tanvi completed her M.Phil in Diplomacy and Disarmament in August 2014, and for her dissertation, she worked on tracing the evolution of the ideas of Credible Minimum Deterrence and No First Use in India's nuclear doctrine and policy. Tanvi was SAV Visiting Fellow in March 2015. She has previously worked with the Nuclear Security Program at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi.
Articles by Tanvi Kulkarni
SAV Review Series: India’s Pakistan Conundrum
This comes quite late to the party. George Perkovich and Toby Dalton’s Not War, Not Peace?: Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism has been well-received […]
India-Pakistan Nuclear CBMs: A New Approach
Anniversaries of significant events are customary occasions for making assessments about the past and recommendations for the future. This May, as we mark the paradigm-shifting […]
Love across the Salt Desert, re-imagined
For Julia. Love across the Salt Desert, re-imagined Sharif and Modi shook hands in Ufa, did they later use a loofah to scrub the stage […]
We don’t talk about how much is enough!
Nuclear weapons countries do not talk about what they consider enough to deter an adversary – and new nuclear weapons possessors especially do not talk […]
Women’s Day Special: India’s Daughter and Rape Culture in South Asia
Talking about women’s rights and sexual harassment has never been easy in South Asia, and the recent controversy in India highlights this fact. Last Thursday […]
#HashtagInteractions
The out-pour on twitter about #IndiaPakistan last year is telling of a story. It is the story about the urge to communicate, to say things […]
An India-Pakistan Nuclear Lexicon – Need of the Hour!
Three days into the discussions on ‘Nuclear Disarmament, Safety and Stability in South Asia’ on the sandy beach of Kalutara in Sri Lanka, the participants […]
The BJP Manifesto and India’s NFU
The news-piece carried by Reuters India titled “BJP puts ‘no first use’ nuclear policy in doubt” has caused murmurs about dramatic changes that could be […]
In the Absence of Women
“Magistrate: And where do you get off taking an interest in war and peace?” Jeffrey Henderson, Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women, Second Edition, Routledge […]