The People Next Door

The People Next Door
Author: T. C. A. Raghavan
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 178738019X

Published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers India.

Deadly Impasse

Deadly Impasse
Author: Sumit Ganguly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2016-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521763614

Evaluating state relations from 1999 to 2009, Deadly Impasse seeks to explore what ails the Indo-Pakistani relationship and perpetuates the enduring rivalry.

Filming the Line of Control

Filming the Line of Control
Author: Meenakshi Bharat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1136516050

Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better understanding of one of the most crucial political and historical relationships in the continent, a relationship that has a key role to play in world-politics and in the shaping of world-history. Part of this exciting study is the documentation of popular responses to Indian films, from both within the two countries and among the Pakistani and Indian diaspora. The motive of this has been to locate and discuss aspects that link the two sensibilities — either in divergence or in their coming together. This book brings together scholars from across the globe, as also filmmakers and viewers on to a common platform to capture the dynamics of popular imagination. Reverberating with a unique inter-disciplinary alertness to cinematic, historical, cultural and sociological understanding, this study will interest readers throughout the world who have their eye on the burgeoning importance of the sub-continental players in the world-arena. It is a penetrating study of films that carries the thematic brunt of attempting to construct a history of Indo–Pakistan relations as reflected in cinema. This book directs our holistic attention to the unique confluence between history and film studies.

Not War, Not Peace?

Not War, Not Peace?
Author: George Perkovich
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-08-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199089701

The Mumbai blasts of 1993, the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai 26/11—cross-border terrorism has continued unabated. What can India do to motivate Pakistan to do more to prevent such attacks? In the nuclear times that we live in, where a military counter-attack could escalate to destruction beyond imagination, overt warfare is clearly not an option. But since outright peace-making seems similarly infeasible, what combination of coercive pressure and bargaining could lead to peace? The authors provide, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the violent and non-violent options available to India for compelling Pakistan to take concrete steps towards curbing terrorism originating in its homeland. They draw on extensive interviews with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, in service and retired, to explore the challenges involved in compellence and to show how non-violent coercion combined with clarity on the economic, social and reputational costs of terrorism can better motivate Pakistan to pacify groups involved in cross-border terrorism. Not War, Not Peace? goes beyond the much discussed theories of nuclear deterrence and counterterrorism strategy to explore a new approach to resolving old conflicts.

The India-Pakistan Conflict

The India-Pakistan Conflict
Author: T. V. Paul
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2005-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521855195

This volume, first published in 2005, analyses the persistence of the India-Pakistan rivalry since 1947.

Where Borders Bleed

Where Borders Bleed
Author: Rajiv Dogra
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9788129135735

Where Borders Bleed is a keenly observed and anecdotal account of a factious landscape that has long engaged global attention the Indo Pak region. Covering almost seventy years of conflict, it chronicles the events leading up to Partition, reflects on the consequent strife and provides a fresh, discursive perspective on the figures who have shaped the story of this land from Lord Louis Mountbatten and Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. Covering historical, diplomatic and military perspectives, where borders bleed is intrepid, engaging with a range of contentious issues that have shaped Indo Pak relationsn water sharing, Kashmir and Article 370. Equally, it is speculative. It asks would terror have affected the world the way it has, if 'PakIndia' had been a benign single entity? What if India and Pakistan were to reunite, much like East and West Germany? As the now-largest nation in the world, would the mammoth PakIndia radically change the globe's geo political framework? These questions combined with the author's own diplomatic access to rare archival material and key leaders across borders make this a one of a kind book on the story of India and Pakistan.

India-Pakistan Negotiations

India-Pakistan Negotiations
Author: Dennis Kux
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781929223879

This book provides a historical and current review of the trends of six key India-Pakistan negotiations, largely over shared resources and political boundaries.

The China-Pakistan Axis

The China-Pakistan Axis
Author: Andrew Small
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2020
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019007681X

"The Beijing-Islamabad axis plays a central role in Asia's geopolitics, from India's rise to the prospects for a post-American Afghanistan, from the threat of nuclear terrorism to the continent's new map of mines, ports and pipelines. China is Pakistan's great economic hope and its most trusted military partner; Pakistan is the battleground for China's encounters with Islamic militancy and the heart of its efforts to counter-balance the emerging US-India partnership. For decades, each country has been the other's only 'all-weather' friend. Yet the relationship is still little understood. The wildest claims about it are widely believed, while many of its most dramatic developments are hidden from the public eye. This book sets out the recent history of Sino-Pakistani ties and their ramifications for the West, for India, for Afghanistan, and for Asia as a whole. It tells the stories behind some of its most sensitive aspects, including Beijing's support for Pakistan's nuclear program, China's dealings with the Taliban, and the Chinese military's planning for crises in Pakistan. It describes a relationship increasingly shaped by Pakistan's internal strife, and the dilemmas China faces between the need for regional stability and the imperative for strategic competition with India and the USA."--Amazon.com.

India's Pakistan Policy

India's Pakistan Policy
Author: Stuti Bhatnagar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2020-08-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000170098

This book critically examines the role of think tanks as foreign policy actors. It looks at the origins and development of foreign policy think tanks in India and their changing relevance and position as agents within the policy-making process. The book uses a comparative framework and explores the research discourse of prominent Indian think tanks, particularly on the India–Pakistan dispute, and offers unique insights and perspectives on their research design and methodology. It draws attention to the policy discourse of think tanks during the Composite Dialogue peace process between India and Pakistan and the subsequent support from the government which further expanded their role. One of the first books to offer empirical analyses into the role of these organisations in India, this book highlights the relevance of and the crucial role that these institutions have played as non-state policy actors. Insightful and topical, this book will be of interest to researchers focused on international relations, foreign policy analysis and South Asian politics. It would also be a good resource for students interested in a theoretical understanding of foreign policy institutions in general and Indian foreign policy in particular.