• Preface and Acknowledgements


• Introduction: International Relations Theory and South Asian Regional Cooperation: Security, Political Economy, Domestic Politics, Identities, and Images (E. Sridharan)


• I. South Asian Security and International Relations Theory


• 1. Structural Realism and South Asian Security: Theory and Practice (Shibashis Chatterjee)


• 2. Economic Cooperation and Security Theory: India and Pakistan (E. Sridharan)


• 3. Nuclear Deterrence Thinking in Pakistan (Rajesh M. Basrur)


• 4. American Foreign Policy and South Asian Security: A Decision-making Approach (K.P. Vijayalakshmi)


• II. Domestic Politics, Political Economy, and Relations between States in South Asia


• 5. Unpacking 'National Interest' and 'Foreign Policy': The Interplay of Domestic Factors and Systemic Constraints in South Asia (Mohammed Ayoob)


• 6. Perceptions, State Policy, and Community Sentiment across National Borders: Pakistani Attitudes towards Indian Muslims (Mohammed Waseem)


• 7. International Relations Theory and the Political Economy of Trade: India and Pakistan (S. Akbar Zaidi)


• 8. Gains from Trade and Structural Impediments to India-Pakistan Trade (Asad Sayeed)


• 9. The Hindutva Worldview and South Asia: Orders, Borders and Others (Sanjay Chaturvedi)


• III. The Construction of Images, Identities, Worldviews and Normative Frameworks


• 10. Deconstruction and Double Reading of the South Asian Security Order (Shibashis Chatterjee)


• 11. Normative Politics of Regime Formation: Human Rights in the South Asian Context (Siddharth Mallavarapu)


• 12. A Conspicuous Absence: Social Science Teaching and Research on India in Pakistan (S. Akbar Zaidi)


• 13. Hybridity, Imaginations and Diasporic Otherness: Challenge for IR Theory (Sanjay Chaturvedi)


• Notes on Contributors