India-Pakistan Relations

To make the transition from the prevalent Nash Equilibrium with its lower payoffs to Pareto-optimal which will yield higher pay offs, India and Pakistan must break away from their traditional thinking of making no concessions.

• Arvind Gupta , Sarita Azad
• April 20, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Since there is no evidence to suggest that the expansion of Pakistan’s nuclear stockpile has degraded India’s retaliatory capability, India should retain its no-first-use doctrine.

• Reshmi Kazi
• April 11, 2011
• IDSA Comments

China’s intensified engagement in the region, encompassing reconstruction and development, suggests a subtle move to alter the security situation.

• Anwesha Ray Chaudhuri
• March 16, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Military diplomacy has not figured significantly in India-Pakistan relations with ample reasons. Military to military engagement between the two states is confined to CBMs of varying significance. Even as both militaries have several regional and extra-regional engagements falling under the rubric of military diplomacy, the ones between the two are restricted to the routine exchanges of military advisors in respective missions in national capitals. However, there is a case for expansion in military diplomacy between the two.

• Ali Ahmed
• January 2011
• Journal of Defence Studies

The absence of a credible interlocutor in Pakistan who can exercise effective control over the Pakistan army leaves India with little choice except to open a parallel dialogue with the military establishment in Pakistan.

• Sushant Sareen
• January 07, 2011
• IDSA Comments

As long as the sub-conventional deterrence holds, the enunciation of the Cold Start doctrine actually introduces a degree of strategic stability in the region.

• Sushant Sareen
• November 22, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The strategy helps sensitise Pakistan to India’s tolerance threshold and reinforces deterrence by bringing home unambiguously to Pakistan that things could get out of hand.

• Ali Ahmed
• September 28, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The ISI threat assessment may be received with great enthusiasm in Western capitals and policy circles, but for observers from the subcontinent it is neither ‘fundamental’ nor a ‘shift’.

• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay
• August 19, 2010
• IDSA Comments

In international conflict resolution, there is a term called ‘disaster diplomacy’, which explains how a disaster in one country may open new ways of interaction and how it brings a new perspective to persisting issues.

• Mehmet Ozkan
• August 18, 2010
• IDSA Comments

India should now focus on handling internal differences, balancing issues across sectors and forging a domestic consensus in order to enhance its negotiating posture vis-a-vis Pakistan

• Medha Bisht
• July 27, 2010
• IDSA Comments