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War And Peace: Decoding the Complex Relationship Between India And Pakistan Since 1947
War And Peace: Decoding the Complex Relationship Between India And Pakistan Since 1947

Author(s): Abhirup Bhattacharya
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, Political history, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Centre of European Dialogue and Cultural Diplomacy
Keywords: Security Crisis; Anarchy; Armed Hostility; Nuclearization; Diplomacy; Powedynamics;

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the Indo-Pak relationship through the lens of structural realism explaining the conflicting situation which has been going on between them for the past seventy years and has affected their relationship ever since the time of their independence in 1947. Though, sharing the same border, tensions have often risen between these two South Asian super powers at times relating to several changing factors from time to time which have escalated their dispute. The sole motive of this paper has been to closely focus upon these major factors and analyse them through various qualitative approaches in order to explain this complex relationship and how it has deteriorated over these years. As a matter of fact, the paper finally draws upon certain conclusions of instability, armed hostility, vested interests of various international actors and lack of commitment as reasons to prove a sense of suspicion upon one another eventually causing this troubled relationship.

  • Issue Year: 10/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 38-56
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English