The United States, India and the Global Nuclear Order: Narrative Identity and Representation by Tanvi Pate

Author:Tanvi Pate [Pate, Tanvi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781351701372
Google: NWNgDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-13T05:20:38+00:00

Great power narratives and US nuclear identity

An exploration of narratives around the Foreign Policy ‘discursive events’ leads to an identification of five great power narratives that continued from the Clinton administration. However, unlike past instances, similarities between the two nations were regularly drawn despite the fact that the difference was preserved and US superiority vis-à-vis India was sustained. The recurrent use of ‘otherness’ instead of ‘radical otherness’ through these narratives enabled the Bush administration to confer nuclear rights upon India ‘other’ so that it could play a productive role in a US envisaged global nuclear order. The narratives that intermittently drew spatial and temporal comparisons of difference were negotiated in sites of: Christian and Hindu civilisations’ inclination for peace; India-Pakistan ‘de-hyphenation’; world’s ‘oldest’ and world’s ‘largest’ democracies; encouraging ‘reforms’ in a ‘developing’ economy; and ‘helping’ India through US ‘assistance’ in renewable technologies to sustain growth. This section evaluates the narrative identity through these master-narratives, the power and the negotiation of ‘we-ness’, and how these forms of ‘we-ness’ were influenced by counter-narratives both domestically and bilaterally.

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