India and Pakistan : Pathways Ahead
Contents: Preface. Introduction: 1. India-Pakistan relations: towards a grand reconciliation/Amitabh Mattoo. Regional dimension: 2. Geo-politics in Southern Asia and its impact on India-Pakistan relations/Happymon Jacob. 3. Nuclear stability in South Asia: issues and challenges/Jasjit Singh. 4. Theorising territory and borders in the India-Pakistan conflict/Devika Sharma. India-Pakistan relations: from the past to the present: 5. Reconstructing the evolutionary narrative/Kalim Bahadur. 6. Engaging Pakistan: from the NDA to the UPA/Malini Parthasarathy. 7. Another shot at Bilateralism? Compulsions, constraints and calculations behind the peace process/Sushant Sareen. 8. India-Pakistan security discourse/Rajesh Rajagopalan. 9. Crossing the lines: a Pakistani looks at science and society in India/Pervez Hoodbhoy. 10. India-Pakistan relations: the Jihadi impediment/Wilson John. 11. The Indus waters and Pakistan\'s water security/A.K. Pandey. 12. Cross-border terrorism: a review/Afsir Karim. Peace building in Jammu Kashmir: 13. The peace process: a view from Jammu/Rekha Chowdhary. 14. The peace process: view from Leh/P. Stobdan. 15. Peace process and imperatives of resolving the Kashmir problem/Noor Ahmad Baba. 16. Kashmir: how to grasp the nettle/Prem Shankar Jha. 17. Resolving the Kashmir issue: a dream worth dreaming/Pran Chopra. 18. Jammu and Kashmir: the internal dimension/Radhavinod Raju. India-Pakistan relations: the way forward: 19. India-Pakistan Neemrana initiative: an experiment in track two diplomacy/Satish Kumar. 20. India-Pakistan relations: is the peace process "Irreversible"?/Frederic Grare. Conclusions: 21. India-Pakistan bilateral dynamics/Kapil Kak. Index.
"India-Pakistan relations are at a historic juncture. This new found warmth, more than mere \'cold peace\'- -- something that has traditionally characterised the relationship between the two countries --has started manifesting in an urge to engage the other country with a positive frame of mind, explore the finer aspects of the other, and impelled an unprecedented popular momentum generated by the expectations of ordinary Indians and Pakistanis. The leadership in both India and Pakistan has not just accepted that they are willing to go beyond their stated positions, but have realised that the welfare of the other is essential to their own. The people of Jammu and Kashmir are also undergoing an attitudinal metamorphosis towards realism and the imperatives of peace, stability and prosperity.
Still, much remains unchanged. Mindsets, suspicion, terror tactics and political compulsions created by age-old \'nationalist\' rhetoric remain potential wild cards in the ongoing process towards positive peace. Thus, much of the challenging journey still lies ahead.
This volume is an attempt to capture these diverse readings and views, analyse the prospects of peace and the potential wild cards, and present these before a discerning audience." (jacket)
