Shadow diplomacy

Frontline (India) by Vijay Prashad | Jul. 28, 2009 (Special Report)

Most analysts of U.S. foreign policy in South Asia agree that there is pressure from within Islamabad and New Delhi to reopen the discussions. For Pakistan, the situation is fairly transparent. Instability along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and the leakage of jehadi ambitions towards Islamabad have shifted the government’s priorities away from India: no longer the easy thought that it is from New Delhi that all of Pakistan’s problems hail. Full Story »

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by Emma Asomba - Jul. 28, 2009

Very thorough, the article goes straight to the main points. It's all about consensus-building and the drive to maintain a "sense" of legitimacy when sudden shifts in geo-political priorities are like sweeping tides that help move the status-quo.

Change is definitely not bound to linear thinking