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Examine the changing perspective of the US foreign policy towards South Asia in recent times and its implications for prospects of peace in the region.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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For most of the Cold War, Washington saw South Asia through containment: Pakistan was an ally and India a non-aligned irritant. The May 1998 nuclear tests and the Kargil war (1999) made the region a nuclear flashpoint on the American agenda. US policy then moved from crisis management between "hyphenated" rivals to strategic partnership with…

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  • The changing perspective
  • Implications for peace
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