| ID | 170896 |
| Title Proper | India’s Pakistan problem |
| Other Title Information | operation Parakram revisited |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Basrur, Rajesh |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Why did India launch and later withdraw from the exercise in coercive diplomacy – Operation Parakram – against Pakistan in response to the attack on India’s Parliament by terrorists based in that country? This paper marshals factors operating at the systemic, state and individual/small-group levels of analysis to show that, despite the paucity of evidence on decisionmaking of the kind required for an effective foreign policy analysis (FPA) approach, a reasonably clear picture can be developed. It combines deductive logic relating to state behavior in a nuclearized environment with the limited empirical evidence available to show that India never intended to go to war and that the operation was essentially a bluff that, having eventually reached a dead end, was called off. |
| `In' analytical Note | India Review Vol. 18, No.5, 2019; p 503-519 |
| Journal Source | India Review Vol; 18 No 5 |
| Key Words | India ; Pakistan ; Operation Parakram ; Foreign Policy Analysis |