Abstract
The issue of Kashmir is not important for the U.S. but rather due to the fact that it involves two nations that have a strategic interest for the U.S. For decades, the United States has been playing a significant role in the security scenario of South Asia. The security deficit and divided South Asia by the deep rivalry between India and Pakistan always had a serious concern for the Americans. United States time and again made efforts to defuse tension between India and Pakistan and bring them to dialogue for a peaceful settlement of contentious issues, Kashmir dispute in particular whose spillover as a nuclear flash point has put South Asia at risk of a nuclear conflict. The Americans never deemed this situation as advantageous for U.S. security interests in the area. Though the U.S. security policy in South Asia fluctuated time to time in consistent with its interests in the region, Kashmir dispute always shared the U.S. security agenda in the region. The U.S. Kashmir policy is blend of two pronged strategy that on one hand worked to prevent the crises leading to war between India and Pakistan from escalation, and on the other hand it provoked New Delhi and Islamabad for dialogue on the issue. With the end of Cold War period, the international political and security scenario was transformed and U.S. as a sole super power reoriented its international security policy goals. The U.S. Security policy in South Asia also took a major shift that affected its approach towards Kashmir dispute. This paper attempts to explore the reorientations of the U.S. policy on Kashmir in post- Cold War period
Ahmad Ejaz. (2016) U.S. POLICY ON KASHMIR DISPUTE IN THE POST-COLD WAR PERIOD, Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 29, Issue 1.
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