Complex rivalry : the dynamics of India-Pakistan conflict / Surinder Mohan

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mohan, Surinder, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.

India.

Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.

Pakistan.

India--Armed Forces--20th century.

India--Armed Forces--21st century.

Pakistan--Armed Forces--20th century.

Pakistan--Armed Forces--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2022]

Summary:

While a substantial body of research explains how the conflict between India and Pakistan originated and developed over time, a systematic and multivariate inquiry cutting across different IR paradigms to understand this rivalry is rare or limited. Surinder Mohan contributes to the understanding of India and Pakistan's rivalry by presenting a new type of framework, also termed as complex rivalry model. This comprehensive model, by not limiting its theoretical tool-kit to any single paradigm, is unique in its approach and better positioned to debate and answer baffling questions that the single paradigm based studies address rather inadequately and in isolation. This book, through an examination of fifty-seven militarized disputes between 1947 and 2020, explains the life-cycle of India-Pakistan rivalry in four phases: initiation; development; maintenance; and a possible transformation/termination. Mohan delineates five specific conditions that evolved the subcontinental conflict into a complex rivalry: first, its survival in spite of the Bangladesh War and the end of the Cold War; second, its linkage with other rivalries; third, the inclusion of nuclear factor; fourth, the dyadic stability in the militarized disputes and hostility level despite changes in the regime type; and fifth, the dyad's involvement in a multilayered conflict pattern. To break this deadlock and mitigate their longstanding differences, Mohan proposes that India and Pakistan must reframe their national priorities and political goals so that the new situation or combinations of conditions would assist their peace strategists to downgrade the dyadic hostility and implement risky policies to make headway to a promising transformation.

Contents:

International relations theory and the India-Pakistan rivalry

The existing conceptualizations of rivalry

Conceptualizing the Indo-Pakistani complex rivalry : A hub-and-spokes framework

The shock of partition and the initiation of complex rivalry, 1947-58

The development of complex rivalry-I : Intensive phase, 1959-72

The development of of complex rivalry-II : Abeyant phase, 1972-89

The maintenance of complex rivalry, 1990-2021

Prospects for rivalry termination.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-385) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Mohan, Surinder Complex Rivalry

ISBN:

9780472220632