Middle East History

MIDDLE EAST HISTORY

2007 Middle East History

Introduction

Concerning the security and foreign policy issue , this will discuss about the history and politics of India , Pakistan , and Afghanistan that experience intertwined since the first two became independent in 1947 . In addition , the three countries also have also distinctive relationship with United States

For the reason , this will address how India , Pakistan , and Afghanistan define their vital security interests in relation to the other two during the past 59 years , how the each country seek to advance their respective interests

vis-a-vis the other two , and how successful or unsuccessful each has been in doing so

Moreover , this will also highlight the countries ' policy positions with regards to their relationship with United States within the past 59 years and how their bilateral relations with the United States related to their relations with the other two South Asian states

India , Pakistan , and Afghanistan

Over 50 years in the past , India and Pakistan developed into separate countries on August 15 , 1947 . The frightening murder of half a million peoples and the evacuating of approximately 15 million men , women , and children blemished what should have been a wonderful event . Just a few months previously , a small number of people had ever perceived sound of the word Pakistan , a thought created by some Muslim intellectuals in 1933 who maintained that there were two separate states in India (Riencourt , A , 2007

The two-nation assumption of the Muslim League was never admitted by the Hindu-dominated Congress Party , which leaders were all for the formation of an integrated and severely worldly India with complete defense for every religious minority and poor exiles . Pakistan turned into a reality in the 1947 and analyzed its bravery almost directly in the first Indo-Pakistani war on Kashmir (Riencourt , A , 2007

Therefore , in a very short period , the major advantage of British colonialism in the subcontinent-its political agreement-was annihilated The Western world compensated slight consideration , at the time , to the long-scope geopolitical effects of this growth . At the present , maybe well over three decades afterward , it ought to compensate a expensive price for this carelessness , in the glow of the current occasions in Afghanistan

India , Pakistan , and Afghanistan and Definition of their vital security interests

In the most common definition , the cold war was political , ideological and economic struggle that emerge between the Soviet Union and the Unites States (and allies ) right after the Second World War the struggle occurred between 1947 and 1991 . It was called the cold war because real physical confrontation never occurred between the superpower nations

The `war ' was happening in the form of arms race (including nuclear weapons , developing military alliances , economic warfare (which involves trade embargos , etc , political propaganda , and intelligence warfare (espionage . There were always risks of full range nuclear war with tremendous casualties however , the closest event to a war is the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1962 , which ended with US , triumphed over the Soviet Union by means of international diplomacy (Gaddis...