Prof. Mattoo reviews Nyla Ali Khan's latest book

Prof. Amitabh Mattoo has short but nice book review in the latest issue of India Today on Nyla Ali Khan's book Islam, Women and Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan . . .


Nyla Ali Khan, granddaughter of Sheikh Abdullah, teaches at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
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Prof. Mattoo for 'grand reconciliation' between India and Pakistan

Prof. Mattoo has a new essay in Thursday's Times of India about the need for a 'grand reconciliation between India and Pakistan . . .


He argues that the conflict is complex and rejects monocausal explanations for the conflict. He goes on to argue that the solution also has to be sought at multiple levels simultaneously, hence a 'grand reconciliation'. You can read his full essay by following the Times of India link above or here.
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Happymon Jacob at Griffith University Conference on Pakistan

Happymon Jacob recenty participated in an international conference on Pakistan's chronic instability, organized by the Griffith Asia Institute of the Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia, 25-26 November, 2009.

Happymon presented a paper on the India-Pakistan peace process (such as it is).
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India's "coercive diplomacy" against Pakistan not working, writes Happymon Jacob

Another essay by Happymon Jacob. This time he argues that India's "coercive diplomacy" towards Pakistan - which is how he characterises India's refusal to talk to Pakistan - has not worked and is unlikely to work . . .

As Jacob argues, "India’s strategy of compellence has never really worked against Pakistan. And it is unlikely to work in the future." The essay was published in The Hindu. You can also read it at Jacob's blogpage here.
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Happymon Jacob wants PM Manmohan Singh's speechwriter changed

Happymon Jacob has a radical solution for Kashmir: change PM Manmohan Singh's speechwriters . . .

Jacob thinks that the pace of India's bureaucratic decision-making process is too slow for the Kashmiris. The essay was published in the Greater Kashmir on November 3, 2009. You can read the full analysis from his blog here.
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Prof. Mattoo on liberating India from Pakistan

Yet another essay by Prof. Mattoo on the India-Pakistan-Kashmir tangle in the Financial Express. He has provided, I think, a better explanation and argument for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent initiative towards Pakistan than the government's spinmeisters have.

Prof. Mattoo suggests that India should work towards constructing Jinnah's model of Pakistan: Muslim, moderate and modern. He suggests an Indian policy based on deterrence of asymmetric attacks, strengthening forces in Pakistan who have a stake in better India-Pakistan relations and weakening those who are opposed.

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Prof. Mattoo on India Today's BEST

India Today has set up a panel of experts they call BEST (Board of Experts on Security and Terror). CIPOD's Prof. Amitabh Mattoo is a member of the group, which met recently to discuss key national security issues . . .


A part of the transcript is available here from the India Today website. The rest will apparently be posted on their website later.

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Prof. Mattoo: Four Ds for a new Kashmir

Prof. Amitabh Mattoo has a new essay on the India-Pakistan-Kashmir tangle in the Times of India.

Prof. Mattoo argues that "For all Kashmir's apparently complex problems, there are in reality only four principal challenges that need to be addressed": dialogue, devolution/de-centralisation, demilitarisation and development.

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Jacob says India should start talking to Pakistan, "Now".

Happymon Jacob has written a new essay in Greater Kashmir arguing that India should start talking to Pakistan, now.

Jacob argues that India has been overusing coercive diplomacy and that New Delhi has reaped all the possible benefits it can out of refusing to talk to Pakistan.

Read his full essay in the link above or here.


Edited 15/10/2009 late evening: Hmm . . . the Greater Kashmir website seems rather uncooperative. The link to the essay keeps going to the wrong op ed section, so please read the essay directly from Happy's blog archive here.
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Mattoo and Jacob to attend India-Pakistan CBM meet

Professor Amitabh Mattoo and Happymon Jacob would be participating in an India-Pakistan Track-Two Dialogue organized by the New Delhi-based Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS). The Dialogue is scheduled on 2-3 October 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The current Dialogue is the second in a series of confidence building dialogues being organized to bring together key opinion makers (including former senior officials) from India and Pakistan to discuss critical issues impacting the bilateral relationship including the issue of Kashmir and terrorism along with other important confidence building measures. Participants include from India G. Parthasarathy, Vikram Sood, A.S. Dulat, Admiral Raja Menon, Siddharth Varadarajan, Prof. Riyaz Punjabi, P.R. Chari, and AVM Kapil Kak, and from Pakistan, Aziz Khan, Riaz Khokhar, Arif Kamal, Najimuddin Sheikh, Talat Hussain, Gen. Aziz Khan and Gen. Asad Durrani.
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Happymon Jacob on the Kashmir peace process

Happymon Jacob has written an essay about the peace process in Kashmir in the Srinagar-based Greater Kashmir. He is not particularly hopeful . . .

As he puts it, "perhaps it is not an ideal season that makes peace, but rather peace that makes the season ideal." Read the full essay here.
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More from Prof. Mattoo on India's Pakistan Policy

Prof. Amitabh Mattoo has a new OpEd essay on India's Pakistan policy in the Hindu.

Prof. Mattoo argues that there are multiple Pakistans and India needs to recognize that reality. In addition, he points out that the recent Pew survey suggests that most ordinary Pakistanis want good relations with India.

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