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Examine Pakistan as a factor in Indo-American relations during the Cold War.

  • UPSC 2001
  • India and the Global Centres of Power

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Dennis Kux called India and the United States "estranged democracies" (1992): states with shared political values and opposed strategic alignments for four decades. Pakistan was the most visible reason. To examine the claim is to ask whether Pakistan caused the estrangement or was the channel through which a deeper divergence, containment versus non-alignment, was expressed.

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  • The case for Pakistan as the decisive factor
  • Testing the claim: the limits of the Pakistan explanation
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