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The paper analyzes India–Pakistan’s lopsided nuclear deterrence and military
strategies. India plans to deliberately escalate a limited war against Pakistan.
Pakistan is determined to neutralize India’s schema on different planes, a limited
conventional, limited nuclear to strategic nuclear wars. It is destabilizing and
complicating South Asia’s nuclear deterrence matrix. Pakistan’s threshold has
depleted due to its “two-frontal” security dilemma. It has considerably increased
Pakistan’s reliance on nuclear weapons. It is deduced that, India–Pakistan’s
inflexible and egocentric cultural mooring is inhibiting them from stepping back
from perilous military strategies, which can trigger miscalculations, enhance
misperceptions, or may lead to the outbreak of accidental/inadvertent limited
conventional or nuclear war. Both countries need to recognize the imperative of a
stable nuclear deterrence and peaceful coexistence instead of crafting unpredictable
and dangerous strategies. The shared risks of nuclear catastrophe should motivate
them to pursue rational and realistic policies.
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173239
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There are very few scholarly endeavors that have focused on Pakistan–India partition and their ongoing conflict from an indigenous theoretical lens. A psycho-cultural paradigm has been used in this article to reexamine and reconceptualize the enduring two-Nations theory – a political ideology, which manifests Hindu-Muslim discord in the Indian Subcontinent by construing both communities as distinct nations based on their inherent ethno-religious and civilizational differences. Considering a very complex process of mass conversion, assimilation, and crisscrossing of caste-system between both groups, this article argues that it is theoretically problematic to differentiate between Hindus and Muslims purely on ethno-religious grounds. Given the significant impact of the institution of family on the lives of the Subcontinental people, regardless of their faith – I propose that it can be more explanatory to categorize both groups as competing branches of a joint family, to understand the construction of political ideology of two-Nations theory in familial terms. This article seeks to clarify the theoretical mechanism through which the family-level ideas can shape peoples’ worldview, informing the way they perceive abstract concepts such as group-conflict and the nation, thus impacting their political thoughts.
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