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COPYRIGHT 2007 Professors World Peace Academy
INDIA-PAKSTAN NEGOTIATIONS: IS PAST STILL PROLOGUE?
Dennis Kux
Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006
87 pages, paper, $12.50
A new breeze is blowing in India-Pakistan relations. Would this lead to full normalization? Are India and Pakistan going to resolve their conflicts through what political leaders and diplomats call "composite dialogue"? These are questions that have acquired special significance in international discourse as both countries are nuclear weapons states.
The origins of India-Pakistan conflict are rooted in history and contemporary politics: division of India as two nation-states of India and Pakistan in 1947 based on religion (in the name of incompatibilities between Hinduism and Islam); repeated use of military to secure control over Kashmir; emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country carved out of Pakistan's eastern wing in 1971; continuing fear among the elite of Pakistan that India is not yet reconciled to its sovereign status; and belief in India that Pakistan promotes...
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