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2002.
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| Description |
1-38
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article examines the Kennedy administration's strategy for making peace between India and Pakistan in 1963. It was assumed that India and Pakistan's mutual need for US support would lead them to curry US favor by showing flexibility on Kashmir. However, the US vied with the USSR as a patron to India, and with China as an ally to Pakistan. As a hedge against weak US promises to defend Pakistan against Indian attack, Pakistan cultivated a tacit alliance with China, while for India, Moscow became an enthusiastic alternative source of military supplies. This forced the United States to reduce the political conditions it attached to its military patronage and diplomatic support, which helps to explain why the US effort to broker peace in Kashmir failed in 1963. It also suggests important obstacles to the United States doing so today.
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