Deadly impasse: Indo-Pakistani relations at the dawn of a new century

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Notes

1. Sumit Ganguly, Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of a New Century (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016), p. 20, citing Charles Glaser, Rational Theory of International Politics: The Logic of Competition and Cooperation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010), p. 36.

2. Ganguly, Deadly Impasse, p. 13.

3. The links between Pakistan’s security agencies and terrorist and militant groups have been examined in several works—see, for example, Daniel Byman, Deadly Connections: States that Sponsor Terrorism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007); Council on Foreign Relations, backgrounder, ‘The ISI and Terrorism: Behind the Accusations’, 4 May 2011, http://www.cfr.org/pakistan/isi-terrorism-behind-accusations/p11644 (accessed 1 June 2016); and Shuja Nawaz, Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).

4. Other authors have drawn upon but gone beyond the security dilemma in discussing Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan. Some note that Islamabad has a long-standing rivalry with Afghanistan, influenced by Afghanistan’s irredentist claim over Pashtun areas in Pakistan. Others argue that Pakistan seeks to avert strategic encirclement—from India to its east and an India-leaning Afghanistan to its north-west—by limiting Indian influence in Afghanistan. See Riaz Mohammed Khan, Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 2011); Khalid Homayun Nadiri, ‘Old Habits, New Consequences: Pakistan’s Posture Toward Afghanistan since 2001’, International Security, vol. 39, no. 2 (Fall 2014), pp. 132–68.

5. Chris Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

6. T.V. Paul, The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

7. Stephen Cohen, Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2013).