Surinder Mohan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3777477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Surinder Mohan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Surinder |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohan |
| SIGNATURE | MOHAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jammu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0198-4809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asymmetric Battleground
The Indo-Pakistani conflict has been heavily influenced by cross-border terrorism, particularly after the Cold War. Pakistan initially used unconventional warfare against India during the First Kashmir War, but it was not until the mid-1980s that it fully embraced and pursued these methods in a systematic fashion. Despite India’s military superiority, Pakistan developed a strong system of state-sponsored terrorism and employed terrorism as a fore…
Shock and Reconciliation? The Case of India–Pakistan, 1962–63
This paper examines the interstate reconciliation between India and Pakistan after the shock of Sino-Indian War of 1962. The post-1962 war political-security equations, particularly at the regional level, gave rise to a situation that necessitated India’s reconciliatory negotiations with Pakistan over Kashmir. Though the rival parties engaged in a six-round political dialogue, the process ended up in a deadlock followed by spirals of armed clashe…
Complex Rivalry
From securitization to security complex
The Politics of Foreign Aid
This article traces the impact of superpowers’ foreign aid on India and Pakistan during the early decades of the Cold War. It shows how the American policy-makers have drawn their initial strategies to bring India under the Western fold and later, when the Indian leadership resisted by adopting the foreign policy non-alignment, charted a new approach to keep it at an adequate distance from the Soviet influence—particularly by exploiting its food …
Shaping the regional and maritime battlefield? The Sino-Indian strategic competition in South Asia and adjoining waters
In this paper, we argue that China is seeking to establish a balance of power favourable to its interests in South Asia and the adjoining waters to curtail India’s rise. Military balancing, economic engagement, and the new multi-regional connectivity project – the “Belt and Road Initiative” – are the key components of China’s policy against India. By roping in the South Asian and the Indian Ocean states, China has effectively deployed the “string…
Military capabilities and regime type
Secession and security
Secession and security provides an indispensable account of the puzzling state responses to the secessionist conflicts around the world. In laying the general background conditions and developing a theoretical and methodological framework of ‘external security theory of secessionist conflict’, the author argues that ‘the external security implications of a secessionist movement determine a state's strategy, guiding whether, and how much, it coerc…
Ideology, territorial saliency, and geographic contiguity
Most explanations tend to claim that ‘ideology’ played single most important role in initiating the Indo-Pakistani rivalry. This study argues that Kashmir’s territorial saliency and proximity with the challenger state, Pakistan, also played fundamental role to begin this rivalry. By adopting a conceptual framework underpinned by the conception of enduring rivalry, this article shows how the fusion of ideology, territorial saliency, and geographic…
Transforming the Line of Control
The majority of existing research on the Indo‐Pakistani conflict has shown that this conflict persists due to the confronting actors' long‐term incompatibility in goals and their use of realpolitik conceptions to resolve their core issue—Kashmir. While most of this research is focused on the dynamics of already established realpolitik scholarship, less is known about how it contributed to make this dyad exceedingly dangerous in the post–Cold War …
Why enduring rivalries do—or don't—end
Eric W Cox, Boulder, Colorado, Lynne Rienner, First Forum Press, 2010, ISBN10 1935049240, ISBN13 9781935049241 (hbk), x+221 pp Within the discipline of international relations, the emerging subfiel
From securitization to security complex
Shock and Reconciliation? The Case of India–Pakistan, 1962–63
This paper examines the interstate reconciliation between India and Pakistan after the shock of Sino-Indian War of 1962. The post-1962 war political-security equations, particularly at the regional level, gave rise to a situation that necessitated India’s reconciliatory negotiations with Pakistan over Kashmir. Though the rival parties engaged in a six-round political dialogue, the process ended up in a deadlock followed by spirals of armed clashe…
Military capabilities and regime type
Secession and security
Secession and security provides an indispensable account of the puzzling state responses to the secessionist conflicts around the world. In laying the general background conditions and developing a theoretical and methodological framework of ‘external security theory of secessionist conflict’, the author argues that ‘the external security implications of a secessionist movement determine a state's strategy, guiding whether, and how much, it coerc…
Ideology, territorial saliency, and geographic contiguity
Most explanations tend to claim that ‘ideology’ played single most important role in initiating the Indo-Pakistani rivalry. This study argues that Kashmir’s territorial saliency and proximity with the challenger state, Pakistan, also played fundamental role to begin this rivalry. By adopting a conceptual framework underpinned by the conception of enduring rivalry, this article shows how the fusion of ideology, territorial saliency, and geographic…
Transforming the Line of Control
The majority of existing research on the Indo‐Pakistani conflict has shown that this conflict persists due to the confronting actors' long‐term incompatibility in goals and their use of realpolitik conceptions to resolve their core issue—Kashmir. While most of this research is focused on the dynamics of already established realpolitik scholarship, less is known about how it contributed to make this dyad exceedingly dangerous in the post–Cold War …
Why enduring rivalries do—or don't—end
Eric W Cox, Boulder, Colorado, Lynne Rienner, First Forum Press, 2010, ISBN10 1935049240, ISBN13 9781935049241 (hbk), x+221 pp Within the discipline of international relations, the emerging subfiel
Transforming the Line of Control
The majority of existing research on the Indo‐Pakistani conflict has shown that this conflict persists due to the confronting actors' long‐term incompatibility in goals and their use of realpolitik conceptions to resolve their core issue—Kashmir. While most of this research is focused on the dynamics of already established realpolitik scholarship, less is known about how it contributed to make this dyad exceedingly dangerous in the post–Cold War …
Ideology, territorial saliency, and geographic contiguity
Most explanations tend to claim that ‘ideology’ played single most important role in initiating the Indo-Pakistani rivalry. This study argues that Kashmir’s territorial saliency and proximity with the challenger state, Pakistan, also played fundamental role to begin this rivalry. By adopting a conceptual framework underpinned by the conception of enduring rivalry, this article shows how the fusion of ideology, territorial saliency, and geographic…
Military capabilities and regime type
Secession and security
Secession and security provides an indispensable account of the puzzling state responses to the secessionist conflicts around the world. In laying the general background conditions and developing a theoretical and methodological framework of ‘external security theory of secessionist conflict’, the author argues that ‘the external security implications of a secessionist movement determine a state's strategy, guiding whether, and how much, it coerc…
The Politics of Foreign Aid
This article traces the impact of superpowers’ foreign aid on India and Pakistan during the early decades of the Cold War. It shows how the American policy-makers have drawn their initial strategies to bring India under the Western fold and later, when the Indian leadership resisted by adopting the foreign policy non-alignment, charted a new approach to keep it at an adequate distance from the Soviet influence—particularly by exploiting its food …
Shaping the regional and maritime battlefield? The Sino-Indian strategic competition in South Asia and adjoining waters
In this paper, we argue that China is seeking to establish a balance of power favourable to its interests in South Asia and the adjoining waters to curtail India’s rise. Military balancing, economic engagement, and the new multi-regional connectivity project – the “Belt and Road Initiative” – are the key components of China’s policy against India. By roping in the South Asian and the Indian Ocean states, China has effectively deployed the “string…
From securitization to security complex
Complex Rivalry
Shock and Reconciliation? The Case of India–Pakistan, 1962–63
This paper examines the interstate reconciliation between India and Pakistan after the shock of Sino-Indian War of 1962. The post-1962 war political-security equations, particularly at the regional level, gave rise to a situation that necessitated India’s reconciliatory negotiations with Pakistan over Kashmir. Though the rival parties engaged in a six-round political dialogue, the process ended up in a deadlock followed by spirals of armed clashe…
Asymmetric Battleground
The Indo-Pakistani conflict has been heavily influenced by cross-border terrorism, particularly after the Cold War. Pakistan initially used unconventional warfare against India during the First Kashmir War, but it was not until the mid-1980s that it fully embraced and pursued these methods in a systematic fashion. Despite India’s military superiority, Pakistan developed a strong system of state-sponsored terrorism and employed terrorism as a fore…
Political science (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Sociology (5 works)