Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine and South Asia: What Are the Implications of Moscow’s Nuclear Blackmail for India and Pakistan?
Journal: Przegląd Strategiczny
Year: 2024

This paper aims to examine the implications of Russia’s nuclear blackmail for India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed states that remain outside the UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons framework and that have been engaged in a protracted conflict for over seven decades. Indeed, the trajectory of India and Pakistan’s rocky bilateral relationship in addition to Pakistan’s characterisation as a “terror state” lacking a “no-first-use” pledge in its nuclear doctrine has earned South A