Manpreet Sethi

Sethi is a senior fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, affiliated with the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi. From 2008 to 2010 she was an international relations fellow of the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. She is the author of Nuclear Strategy: India's March towards Credible Deterrence and editor of Nuclear Power: In the Wake of Fukushima. She received a doctorate in international relations from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1997.

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Articles by Manpreet Sethi

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
18 July 2013
AsiaEurope/Russia

Vested interests, phantom threats

Manpreet Sethi

Evgeny Buzhinsky's Round Three essay encapsulates a mindset that prevents nations from seriously contemplating forms of interstate security that are not anchored by nuclear weapons.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
18 July 2013
Americas

Nuclear deterrence and terrorism: Implications for global security

Evgeny BuzhinskySadia TasleemManpreet Sethi

Though US nuclear policy seeks "to reduce the salience of nuclear weapons," it doesn't exclude their use against states that help terrorists obtain weapons of mass destruction.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
27 June 2013
AmericasAsia

Transcending narrow national interests

Manpreet Sethi

My colleague Sadia Tasleem, discussing whether Pakistan might be considered a potential target of US deterrence policy, noted in her second essay that her nation has not "help[ed] terrorists gain access to weapons of mass destruction." This is true—so far.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
6 June 2013
AmericasAsia

Right idea, tricky implementation

Manpreet Sethi