Political Geography: Islamabad / Topic: Regional Cooperation

Author:: Eric Rosand, Jason Ipe, and Naureen Chowdhury Fink
Publication Date:: 05-2009
Content Type:: Policy Brief
Institution:: Fourth Freedom Forum
Abstract:: Horrific acts of terrorism, such as the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, underscore the regional nature of the terrorist threat in South Asia, and they highlight the need for greater cooperation within the region to address it. This report explores waysto strengthen such cooperation, with a particular focus on the role that the United Nations can playin this regard. It urges the United Nations to build on the international community's solidarity in the wake of terrorist attacks—such as those recently in Islamabad, Lahore, and Mumbai—to forge stronger engagement between the United Nations and SouthAsia on counterterrorism and within the region itself.
Topic:: Regional Cooperation, Terrorism, United Nations, and Counterinsurgency
Political Geography:: South Asia, Mumbai, Islamabad, and Lahore

Publication Date:: 12-2003
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Crisis Group
Abstract:: More than five decades after independence, Pakistan is no closer to a resolution with India of the dispute over Kashmir. Pakistan and India have fought three wars, two of them over the status of Kashmir. They have been on the brink of war on several other occasions, including in Siachen in 1987 and in Kargil in 1999. From December 2001 to October 2002, the nuclear-armed protagonists came close to war once again when India mobilised along its international border with Pakistan following the terrorist attack on the parliament in New Delhi. Intense diplomatic and political pressure by the U.S., in coordination with other G-8 countries, averted what could have been a catastrophic clash.
Topic:: Security, Government, Regional Cooperation, and War
Political Geography:: Pakistan, United States, South Asia, India, Kashmir, New Delhi, and Islamabad

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