Autorentext

Asifa Jahangir (Dr.) was a visiting postdoctoral research fellow under the AAUW international fellowship for 2024-25, and she is currently working as a Resident Research Fellow at Arizona State University's CME-US, in conjunction with the Future Securities Initiative for 2025-2026. She earned a PhD in South Asian Studies with a focus on International Relations from the University of the Punjab, Lahore. Her research interests encompass Pakistan-China relations, Afghanistan-India-Pakistan relations and their political systems, foreign policy, strategic studies, nuclear issues, US-India strategic cooperation versus Pakistan-China, Asia-Pacific security and politics, climatology, and intercultural studies.

Pakistan-China strategic relationship: A glorious journey of 55 years, published in 2015

Klappentext

The book examines the current geopolitical tussle in Afghanistan among different non-regional and regional players over control and manipulation of the region after the 9/11 period. Drawing on the conceptual framework of the unintended consequences approach, it reconceptualizes the concept and trope of the Great Game through the proxy war between Pakistan and India in Afghanistan under the Great Power competition, following the USA's shift towards India in its 'war on terror.' It examines Afghanistan's history retrospectively and prospectively, the role of the United States in this Grand Great Game of changing geopolitical and security dynamics post-9/11, India's foreign relations and its soft power engagement in Afghanistan, the implications of the Indo-Afghanistan relations, and the way forward for Pakistan and available policy options while living in a fractured neighborhood. A key intervention in South Asian geopolitics, this book will be indispensable for scholars of international relations, global politics, terrorism and counter-terrorism studies, strategic studies, and military history.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1 Unintended Consequences in the Afghanistan-India-Pakistan Triangular Relationship: A Conceptual Framework

Chapter 2 Factoring the Historical Root Causes of Unintended Consequences in Afghanistan

Chapter 3 Post-9/11 Evolving Regional Security Dynamics and Global War on Terror: New Era of Grand Great Game Begins

Chapter 4 India's Soft Power Engagements in Afghanistan

Chapter 5 The Indian Factor in Afghanistan and Its Implications for Pakistan

Chapter 6 A Reappraisal: Pakistan's Strategic Reorientation and Policy Options in a Fractured Neighborhood