Second of a two-volume treatise on International relations theory and its implications, connects, and disconnects with developments in contemporary South Asia, this volume brings together thirteen essays on South Asian security and International relations theory; domestic politics, political economy, and relations between states in south Asia; and the construction of images, identities, and the normative frameworks on international relations in theregion.

• Preface and Acknowledgements


• Introduction: International Relations Theory and South Asian Regional Cooperation: Security, Political Economy, Domestic Politics, Identities, and Images (E. Sridharan)


• I. South Asian Security and International Relations Theory


• 1. Structural Realism and South Asian Security: Theory and Practice (Shibashis Chatterjee)


• 2. Economic Cooperation and Security Theory: India and Pakistan (E. Sridharan)


• 3. Nuclear Deterrence Thinking in Pakistan (Rajesh M. Basrur)


• 4. American Foreign Policy and South Asian Security: A Decision-making Approach (K.P. Vijayalakshmi)


• II. Domestic Politics, Political Economy, and Relations between States in South Asia


• 5. Unpacking 'National Interest' and 'Foreign Policy': The Interplay of Domestic Factors and Systemic Constraints in South Asia (Mohammed Ayoob)


• 6. Perceptions, State Policy, and Community Sentiment across National Borders: Pakistani Attitudes towards Indian Muslims (Mohammed Waseem)


• 7. International Relations Theory and the Political Economy of Trade: India and Pakistan (S. Akbar Zaidi)


• 8. Gains from Trade and Structural Impediments to India-Pakistan Trade (Asad Sayeed)


• 9. The Hindutva Worldview and South Asia: Orders, Borders and Others (Sanjay Chaturvedi)


• III. The Construction of Images, Identities, Worldviews and Normative Frameworks


• 10. Deconstruction and Double Reading of the South Asian Security Order (Shibashis Chatterjee)


• 11. Normative Politics of Regime Formation: Human Rights in the South Asian Context (Siddharth Mallavarapu)


• 12. A Conspicuous Absence: Social Science Teaching and Research on India in Pakistan (S. Akbar Zaidi)


• 13. Hybridity, Imaginations and Diasporic Otherness: Challenge for IR Theory (Sanjay Chaturvedi)


• Notes on Contributors

E. Sridharan is Academic Director, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advance Study of India, New Delhi