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What ails the Indo-Pakistani relationship? Rivalry between the two states has persisted since the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947, and despite negotiations, four wars and multiple crises, India and Pakistan remain locked in a long-standing dispute. Evaluating relations from 1999 through to 2009, Sumit Ganguly seeks to understand this troubled relationship and why efforts at peace-making and conflict resolution, which have included unilateral Indian concessions, have not been more fruitful. Charting key sources of tension throughout the decade, including the origins and outcomes of the Kargil War in 1999, developments in the Indian-controlled portion of the state of Kashmir, the attack on the Indian parliament in December 2001 and the onset of the 2001–2 crisis, Deadly Impasse sets out to discover whether the roots of this hostile relationship stem from security dilemmas or reflect the dynamics between a status quo power and a predatory state

"In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation about whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's next proliferators." "With these two major interpretations, Ganguly and Kapur tackle all sides of an urgent issue that has profound regional and global consequences. Sure to spark discussion and debate, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb thoroughly maps the potential impact of nuclear proliferation."--BOOK JACKET

Wars without end? -- 1984: India, Pakistan, and preventive war fears -- Threat perceptions, military modernization and a crisis -- The 1990 Kashmir crisis -- Out of the closet: the 1998 nuclear tesets crisis -- The road to Kargil -- The 2001-2 Indo-Pakistani crisis: exposing the limits of coercive diplomacy -- Lessons, implications, and policy suggestions

Introduction / Sumit Ganguly -- The US-India courtship / Robert M. Hathaway -- India, Pakistan, and Kashmir / Stephen Philip Cohen -- Toward a 'Force-in-Being' : the logic, structure, and utility of India's emerging nuclear posture / Ashley J. Tellis -- Asymmetrical Indian and Chinese threat perceptions / John W. Garver -- Indo-Russian strategic relations : new choices and constraints / Deepa Ollapally -- The Indo-French strategic dialogue : bilateralism and world perceptions / Jean-Luc Racine -- India and Israel : emerging partnership / P.R. Kumaraswamy -- The political economy of India's second-generation reforms / Sunila Kale.

Few bilateral conflicts have proven as resistant to resolution as the Kashmir disputebetween India and Pakistan. What explains the tenacity of this dispute? The answer iscomplex and goes to the very basis of state-construction in South Asia. India, which hadbeen created as a civic polity, initially sought to hold on to this Muslim-majority state todemonstrate its secular credentials. 1 Pakistan, in turn, had laid claim to Kashmir becauseit had been created as the homeland for the Muslims of South Asia. 2 After the break-up ofPakistan in 1971 the Pakistani irredentist claim to Kashmir lost substa.