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Abstract

The central theme of this study revolves around the emerging American cooperative bilateralism with India and Pakistan on separate basis which has shaped a new US South Asian policy started from the post-1998 era. The nuclearization of South Asia and the Kargil crisis between two nuclear powers of subcontinent inaugurated a new era of US South Asian engagement by declaring Pakistan a close ally in Washington’s global war on terror campaign whereas India became a close strategic partner of US. This new policy hampered the conventional wisdom attached to the triangular relation between three states, India, US, and Pakistan. Therefore, this study attempted to provide a comprehensive overview of US contemporary South Asian policy which has altered the positions of New Delhi and Islamabad in Washington’s mainstream foreign relations. This study could be treated as an academic endeavor to understand the role of US in shaping the regional security environment of South Asia as an external. The American increasing influence in the regional affairs of South Asian and its perplexing engagements with India and Pakistan inflicts a sense of insecurity in Islamabad strategic calculations and resulted in Islamabad-Beijing close economic ties.

Course: International Relations and Politics - MA - P3210FTC

Date Deposited: 2024-02-02

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