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WHAT DRIVES SUBCONTINENTAL INSECURITY?:
A MULTITHEORETIC EXAMINATION
OF THE INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT DYAD
by
K. Alan Kronstadt
_______________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 K. Alan Kronstadt
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| Title | What drives subcontinental insecurity ?: a multitheoretic examination of the India-Pakistan conflict dyad |
| Author | Kronstadt, K. Alan |
| Author email | alankk@yahoo.com; alankk@excite.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | International Relations |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-08-31 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-11-30 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | English, Robert |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Tickner, J. Ann Dekmejian, Richard |
| Abstract | For most of the year 2002, the contiguous, nuclear-armed nation-states of India and Pakistan faced off in a circumstance of near-war. During this period, the people of both countries continued to suffer from environmental degradation, extensive poverty, and ethnic and religious strife, as they had for decades. What drives insecurity on the Asian Subcontinent? The field of international relations offers two major theoretic approaches to security: realism and constructivism. This thesis addresses the central research question by presenting four “conceptual lenses”—two security theory variants derived from the realist school and two derived from the constructivist school—and applying these to the case of the India-Pakistan conflict dyad, with a particular focus on regional nuclearization and the Kashmir dispute. It argues that neorealist and neoclassical realist perspectives, with their emphases on the role of material power, offer persuasive, but oftentimes limited explanations of policy outcomes, while also contributing to creating the very insecurity they seek to explain. By focusing on how actor identities and norms emerge and affect behaviors over time, a “cultural constructivist” approach provides valuable insights into the ideational underpinnings of conflict, although its prescriptive powers are less and it, too, shares the confining rationalist assumptions of realism. “Critical constructivism,” with its openly normative assumptions about human security and emancipation, illuminates the ways in which pursuit of (realist) power and a firmer (constructivist) identity by the Indian and Pakistani nation-states can engender insecurity in the actual people who comprise these entities. The central findings of this project strongly suggest a need for international security theorists and practitioners, alike, to resist the temptation of limiting themselves to the confines of a single set of ontological assumptions. |
| Keyword | India; Pakistan; nuclear; Kashmir; realism; constructivism; critical theory |
| Geographic subject | land regions: South Asia |
| Geographic subject (country) | India; Pakistan |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2776 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Kronstadt, K. Alan |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kronstadt-3390 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Kronstadt-3390.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | WHAT DRIVES SUBCONTINENTAL INSECURITY?: A MULTITHEORETIC EXAMINATION OF THE INDIA-PAKISTAN CONFLICT DYAD by K. Alan Kronstadt _______________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS) December 2009 Copyright 2009 K. Alan Kronstadt |
