Toby Dalton on Confidence-Building Measures in South Asia

Confidence-Building Measures in South Asia featuring Toby Dalton, Co-Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Dalton differentiates between two types of confidence-building measures: (i) incremental, which require less political and strategic risk but are easier to break and (ii) symbolic, which require much more political and security risk and seek to establish a new baseline.
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