Soviet-Pakistan relations and post-Soviet dynamics, 1947-92

Framework for analysis; instruments of Soviet diplomacy and self-projection; problems of initial adaptation for the USSR and Pakistan; Russian-Soviet expansion twoards Afghanistan: British-Indian and Pakistan counter-pressures; foreign policy adaptation to /regional and global environment: regional dynamics; Soviet role in the regional dynamics; strategic significance of border conflicts; the evolution of detente with the Soviet Union; from detente to alienation: emergence of Bangladesh and New Alignments; the New Pakistan: doctrine of bilateralism and the nuclear option; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and its impact on Pakistan; Post-Geneva develpments and the Soviet collapse; emergence of central Asia: Post-Soviet dynamics.