South Asia's Nuclear Decade

Riedel, Bruce

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“…foreignaffairs.com/discussions/roundtables/whats-the-problem-with-pakistan ''the opportunity for diplomacy is riper than usual in this new era (2008 onwards)''. 39 Similarly dubious was the calculation that the US would be able to leverage this goodwill at a time when India's elite pressed the government of the day -the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance -to bring senior members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), who had masterminded and executed the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, to book. How could India be expected to engage Islamabad when the top LeT leadership was found to be freely ensconced on Pakistani soil?…”

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Balancing US Interests in India and Pakistan

Chaudhuri

2011

The International Spectator

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On 6 November 2010, during his maiden visit to the sub-continent, President Barack Obama delivered what came to be seen in both India and Pakistan as a disappointing speech. 1 Opposition leaders in India claimed that the president did not go far enough to reprimand Pakistan to dismantle terrorist hubs ensconced within its borders. Indeed, he did not once mention Pakistan. This was considered unacceptable. He was, after all, giving the speech in Mumbai, a city that had been witness to devastating attacks in November 2008. 2 The attackers all hailed from Pakistan. In Pakistan, the entire US administration was berated for warming up to India, and this, when Pakistan serves as a frontline state in the war against terror. 3 Further, the fact that the president's following address to the Indian Parliament did not mention Kashmir did little to inspire confidence amongst an elite who have long advocated third-party intervention to resolve this age old conflict. 4 In many ways, the reactions to Obama's visit to India exemplify the difficult task of balancing US interests and relations with South Asia's two nuclear giants. In the current milieu, this undertaking has taken on an all important dimension-Indian and Pakistani rivalry in Afghanistan. A key aim of US foreign policy has been to convince Pakistan to focus on anti-Coalition insurgent groups along the Durand line rather than the Indian army to its east. This is essential if the US and its allies are to achieve some degree of progress in 'degrading' the Afghan Taliban along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. As is widely believed, campaign progress against insurgents on one side of the border is at least partially dependent upon progress on the other. 5 Given the implicit significance of the role played by India, either in its bilateral relations with Pakistan or because of its expanding presence in Afghanistan, the

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“…US pressure on this issue is expected to push New Delhi into creating a common administrative space in Kashmir, a plan often written about by Washington insiders. 41…”

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Balancing US Interests in India and Pakistan

Chaudhuri

2011

The International Spectator

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China, the United States, and Global Order

Foot

Walter

2010

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The United States and China are the two most important states in the international system and are crucial to the evolution of global order. Both recognize each other as vital players in a range of issues of global significance, including the use of force, macroeconomic policy, nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, climate change and financial regulation. In this book, Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter, both experts in the fields of international relations and the East Asian region, explore the relationship of the two countries to these global order issues since 1945. They ask whether the behaviour of each country is consistent with global order norms, and which domestic and international factors shape this behaviour. They investigate how the bilateral relationship of the United States and China influences the stances that each country takes. This is a sophisticated analysis that adroitly engages the historical, theoretical and policy literature.

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The Evolution of International Security Studies

2009

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International Security Studies (ISS) has changed and diversified in many ways since 1945. This book provides the first intellectual history of the development of the subject in that period. It explains how ISS evolved from an initial concern with the strategic consequences of superpower rivalry and nuclear weapons, to its current diversity in which environmental, economic, human and other securities sit alongside military security, and in which approaches ranging from traditional Realist analysis to Feminism and Post-colonialism are in play. It sets out the driving forces that shaped debates in ISS, shows what makes ISS a single conversation across its diversity, and gives an authoritative account of debates on all the main topics within ISS. This is an unparalleled survey of the literature and institutions of ISS that will be an invaluable guide for all students and scholars of ISS, whether traditionalist, 'new agenda' or critical.

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South Asia's Nuclear Decade

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Balancing US Interests in India and Pakistan

Balancing US Interests in India and Pakistan

China, the United States, and Global Order

The Evolution of International Security Studies

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