Despite two years of peace negotiations, Pakistan is refusing to have normal trade with India. Unless that attitude changes, you can't build interdependence, which is an essential building block to any kind of political resolution of problems.
"Brahma Chellaney" is a strategic thinker, author, public intellectual and analyst of international geostrategic trends. He is respected for his depth of scholarship and for his independent mind. He won the 2012 Bernard Schwartz Book Award by the New York-based Asia Society for his pioneering work, Water: Asia's New Battleground, published by Georgetown University Press. He received the $20,000 prize at a special event in New York on 23 January 2013. He has since published a new book on the global geopolitics of natural resources Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis, brought out by Rowman & Littlefield, one of the leading US-based publishers.
Professor Chellaney, the first Bernard Schwartz awardee living outside the Anglosphere, is a Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based Centre for Policy Research, an independent think-tank; a member of the Board of Governors of the National Book Trust of India; and a nonresident affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization at King's College London. He has been a Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, which through the Nobel Committee awards the Nobel Peace Prize annually, as well as a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Berlin. He was formerly a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the External Affairs Minister of India.
More Brahma Chellaney on Wikipedia.The easy parts have been done.
There's still a deep undercurrent of mistrust.
The least an over-romantic India can do ... is heed to the (former U.S. President Ronald) Reagan dictum: trust but verify.
China's real advantage over India is leadership and vision.
While it is clear India wants to be America's friend and strategic partner, it is less obvious whether the U.S. wants to be India's friend or merely capitalize on this country's growing geopolitical importance and abundant market opportunities.
This gives the Pakistani economy fresh air to breathe; it has room to recover.
The Bush administration is keen to revive the U.S. civilian nuclear industry. It seems to me the only way the nuclear power industry in the U.S. can be revived is to get India to place some multibillion-dollar nuclear reactor contracts.
And now you have Pakistani regulars and irregulars and war veterans Afghans, who have taken over the entire movement in Kashmir. They are waging a different kind of campaign that focuses on targeting high value objects.
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