1st Edition

India and the South Asian Strategic Triangle

By Ashok Kapur Copyright 2011
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, and shows how two enmities – Sino-Indian and Indo-Pakistani – and one friendship – Sino-Pakistani – defined the distribution of power and the patterns of relationships in a major centre of gravity of international conflict and international change. The three powers... Read more

1. Introduction  2. 1950s: From China-India Pretensions and Complicity to Strategic Contentions  3. Theory of Strategic Triangles and its relevance in the Indian Subcontinent and Himalayan Zone  4. Strategic Triangles in the Himalayan Zone; pre-1949 History and 1949-50  5. The Making of Sino-Indian Conflict: Role of Bilateral Actions- Reactions, Third Party Foreign Influences & Domestic Politics in Foreign Policy  6. The Inevitability of Sino-Indian Conflict  7. India Regrouped, China’s Irredentist Escalation Continued (1962- ) and the China-India-Pakistan Triangle Emerged (1963- )  8. Sino-Indian Manoeuvres That Led to a Strategic Stalemate and Conflict Formation  9. Current Dynamics and a Look to the Future

Biography

Ashok Kapur is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada.   He is author of several major works including India - From Regional to World Power (also published by Routledge), and is co-author of Government & Politics in South Asia, 6th edition.