PUBLICATIONS: Dr Bhumitra Chakma Single-authored research monographs Edited books South Asia s Nuclear Security (London: Routledge, 2015). Pakistan s Nuclear Weapons (London: Routledge, 2009; paperback edition, 2010). Strategic Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in South Asia (Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2004). South Asia in Transition: Democracy, Political Economy and Security (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia (London and New York: Ashgate, 2011). Key journal articles Sheikh Hasina Government s India Policy: A Three Level Game? Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2015), pp. 27-51. 'Liberal Peace and South Asia', India Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 187-205. 'Escalation Control, Deterrence Diplomacy and U.S. Role in South Asia's Nuclear Crises', Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 33, No. 3 (December 2012), pp. 554-576. Nuclear Arms Control Challenges in South Asia, India Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July- September 2010), pp. 364-384. Also, Guest Editor s Note, in the same issue of India Review; Special issue on Confidence Building and Nuclear Arms Control in South Asia, pp. 295-299. The Post-Colonial State and Minorities: Ethnocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol. 48, No. 3 (July 2010), pp. 281-300. South Asia s Realist Fascination and the Alternatives, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 30, No. 3 (December 2009), pp. 395-420. Assessing the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord, Asian Profile, Vol. 36, No. 1 (2008), pp. 93-106. Pakistani Missiles: Explaining Procurement and Strategic Implications, BIISS Journal (Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies), Vol. 28, No. 1 (2007), pp. 45-69.
Pakistan s Nuclear Doctrine, and Command and Control System: Dilemmas of Small Nuclear Forces in the Second Atomic Age, Security Challenges, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2006), pp. 115-133. The NPT, the CTBT and Pakistan: Explaining Non-adherence Posture of a de facto Nuclear State, Asian Security, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2005), pp. 267-284. Toward Pokhran II: Explaining India s Nuclearisation Process, Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge), Vol. 39, No. 1 (February 2005), pp. 189-236. (Co-authored with Imtiaz Ahmed and Amena Mohsin) Administrative Reforms in the CHT: A Diagnostic Study of the Ministry of CHT Affairs, Identity, Culture and Politics: an afro-asian dialogue, Vol. 4, No. 2 (December 2003), pp. 109-172. Road to Chagai: Pakistan s Nuclear Programme, Its Sources and Motivations, Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge), Vol. 36, No. 4 (October 2002), pp. 871-912. Explaining India s Opposition to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Social Science Review, Vol. 19, No. 1 (June 2002), pp. 11-20. India and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, BIISS Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 2002), pp. 235-252. Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: The Conceptual Debate, BIISS Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3 (July 2001), pp. 334-353. (Co-authored with Syed Aziz-al-Ahsan) Bhutan s Foreign Policy: Cautious Self- Assertion? Asian Survey (Berkeley), Vol. XXXII, No. 11 (November 1993), pp. 1043-1054. Brazil s Defence Industrialisation: The Rationale Behind It, The Journal of Social Studies, No. 61 (July 1993), pp. 25-42. Realism in International Relations: An Evaluation of Its Basic Assumptions (in Bengali), Dhaka University Paper, no. 45 (February 1993), pp. 25-39. Ethnic Nationalism in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (in Bengali), Samaj Nirikkhon (Social Observation), No. 49 (August 1993), pp. 35-47. Theorizing International Crisis: An Assessment (in Bengali), Samaj Nirikkhon (Social Observation), No. 50 (November 1993), pp. 43-54 (Co-authored with Syed Aziz-al-Ahsan), Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh: The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Asian Survey (Berkeley), Vol. XXIX, No. 10 (October 1989), pp. 959-970. Working paper 'Bangladesh-India Relations: Sheikh Hasina's India-positive Policy Approach,' RSIS Working Paper no. 252 (Singapore: Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, November 2012).
Book chapters Democratic Transition and Pakistan s Nuclear Weapons, in Shaun Gregory, ed., Democratic Transition and Security in Pakistan (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 234-251. The CHT and the Peace Process, in Ali Riaz and Sajjadur Rahman, eds. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 306-315. 'Global Fight against Terrorism in Afghanistan: Impact on South Asian Security,' in Bhumitra Chakma (ed.), South Asia in Transition: Democracy, Political Economy and Security (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 155-173. Demilitarization: the Bangladesh Experience,' in Rajesh Basrur and Kartik Bommakanti, (eds.), Demilitarising the State: The South and Southeast Asian Experience (Singapore: S. Rajaratnam School of International Affairs, Nanyang Technological University, 2012), pp. 33-55. 'Pakistan: The Politics of Nuclear Force Building,' in Harsh V. Pant, (ed.), Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012), pp. 161-172. 'Bound to Fail? The 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord ', in Nasir Uddin, (ed.), The Politics of Peace: The Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh (Dhaka: Institute of Culture and Development Research, 2012), pp. 121-142. 'The Pakistani Nuclear Deterrent,' in Bhumitra Chakma (ed.), The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia (London and New York: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011), pp. 39-53. 'Pakistan's Post-test Nuclear Use Doctrine,' in Bhumitra Chakma (ed.), The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia (London and New York: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011), pp. 75-89. 'South Asia's Nuclear Deterrence and the USA,' in Bhumitra Chakma (ed.), The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia (London and New York: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011), pp. 113-135. (With Nishchal Nath Pandey) 'Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia and Its Impact on Regional Cooperation,' in Bhumitra Chakma (ed.), The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia (London and New York: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011), pp. 137-151. Pakistan s Nuclear Weapons Programme: Past and Future, in Olav Njolstad (ed.), Nuclear Proliferation and International Order: Challenges to the Non-proliferation Treaty (London: Routledge in association with the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 2010), pp. 26-38. Structural Roots of Violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in Naeem Mohaiemen, (ed.), Between Ashes and Hope: Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism (Dhaka: Dristipath, 2010)
Refugees: The Experience of Bangladesh, in Joshva Raja, (ed.), Refugees and Their Right to Communicate: South Asian Perspective (London: World Association for Christian Communication, 2003), pp. 64-86. Bangladesh-China Relations: Determinants and Interlinkages, in Abul Kalam, (ed.), Bangladesh: Internal Dynamics and External Linkages (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 1996), pp. 257-275. Realism in International Relations (in a Bengali volume), Principles of International Relations, Md. Abdul Halim (Dhaka: Dhaka University Study Series, 1995), pp. 169-187. Geopolitics, in a Bengali volume - Principles of International Relations, Md. Abdul Halim (Dhaka: Dhaka University Study Series, 1995), pp. 188-209 (Co-authored with Amena Mohsin) The Myth of Nation Building and Security of Bangladesh: The Case of Chittagong Hill Tracts, in Iftekharuzzaman and Imtiaz Ahmed, (eds.) Bangladesh and SAARC: Issues, Perspectives, and Outlook (Dhaka: Academic Publishers, 1992), pp. 283-312. Policy Papers Bangladesh ; in Security Sector Horizon Scanning 2015 South Asia, to support British Army s AGILE WARRIOR, Director General Capability, Concepts, The British Army; also published as a KCL Occasional Paper, edited by Andrew Dorman, Laura Cleary and Matthew Craig, Shrivenham: Cranfield University, 2015), ISBN 978-1-907413-32-2. Pakistan: Whither Minimum Deterrence?' December 2013; S. Rajaratnam School of International Affairs, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore available at: http://www.rsis.edu.sg/publications/policy_brief/policy%20brief%20-%202013-12- 31%20-%20Pakistan%20-%20Whither%20Minimum%20Deterrence.pdf. (Note: this piece is published as a contribution in the Project on Strategic Stability in the 21 st Century Asia), pp. 1-8. Other publications A defining moment, The Indian Express, 3 January 2014. 'A nation argues with itself,' The Indian Express, 4 March 2013. Guest Editor s Note, India Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July-September 2010); Special issue on Confidence Building and Nuclear Arms Control in South Asia, pp. 295-299. Structural Roots of Violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai), Vol. XLV, No. 12 (20 March 2010), pp. 19-21. Nuclear-armed South Asia, Asian Currents, April 2006.
The Nation-State and the Refugee Phenomenon: The Case of Bangladesh, Refugee Watch (Kolkata, India), June 2003, pp. 10-14. Recent book reviews Chris Ogden, Hindu Nationalism and the Evolution of Contemporary Indian Security (London: Routledge, 2015) in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 54, no. 3 (July 2016) Delwar Hussain, Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh- India Border (London: Hurst and Company, 2013) in Journal of Borderland Studies, vol. 31, no. 1 (2016) Feroz H Khan, Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012): in Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 36, No 1 (July 2015). Robert G. Wirsing, Daniel C. Stoll and Christopher Jasparre, International Conflict Over Water Resources in Himalayan Asia (Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Contemporary South Asia, vol. 22, no. 1 (2014). Verghese Koithara, Managing India's Nuclear Forces (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2012); Contemporary South Asia, vol. 21, no. 3 (2013). Harsh V. Pant, Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates its Rise in the International System (New York: Palgrave and Macmillan, 2008); Asian Affairs, Vol. XLI, No. III (November 2010) Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010); Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 31, No. 2 (August 2010), pp. 364-366. Muthiah Alagappa, The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21 st Century Asia (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008); East Asia, Vol. 26, No. 4 (December 2009), pp. 349-351. Lloyd I. Rudolph & Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (eds.). Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency (Bloomington, In.: Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2008); Asian Affairs, Vol. XL, No. 1 (July 2009), p. 304-306.