By Alex Stolar – Pakistan is grappling with multiple crises simultaneously: a political crisis to determine an arrangement of governance in which President Pervez Musharraf seeks to share, but continues to exercise power;…
The crackle of gunfire in central New Delhi on the morning of December 13, 2001 started a new chapter in India and Pakistan’s tortured history. Outside India’s stately Parliament House, five heavily armed…
Originally published in The Indian Express By Michael Krepon – The attack on the Samjhauta Express underlines that the higher one climbs toward the summit of peace-making, the more daunting the challenges. But…
The Twin Peaks crisis was prompted by a brazen attack by militants on the Indian Parliament building in New Delhi in December 2001. The second peak in the crisis occured in May 2002,…
To paraphrase Raymond Aron, crises have become the substitute of wars between nuclear-armed states. This corollary to nuclear deterrence applies to South Asia, where Pakistan and India have so far experienced two crises…
Edited by Michael Krepon, Khurshid Khoja, Michael Newbill, and Jenny S. Drezin Table of Contents List of Abbreviations List of Tables Preface Conflict Avoidance, Confidence-Building, and Peacemaking– Michael Krepon The Asia–Pacific Region Asia–Pacific…
Michael Krepon, Dominique M. McCoy and Matthew C.J. Rudolph, eds, A Handbook of Confidence-Building Measures for Regional Security (Washington, DC: The Henry L. Stimson Center, September 1993). Contents Project on Confidence-building Measures for…
To The Brink: Indian Decision-Making and the 2001-2002 Standoff
By Alex Stolar – Pakistan is grappling with multiple crises simultaneously: a political crisis to determine an arrangement of governance in which President Pervez Musharraf seeks to share, but continues to exercise power;…