Peacebuilding and Security Dilemmas in South Asia

South Asia is becoming a conflict-prone region owing to long-standing issues like interstate rivalries, disputed borders and so on. Besides, the politics of South Asia is marked by the interactions between the region’s leading states and key extra-regional powers. There is an unfolding multipolar competition in South Asia, and this dynamic is becoming more complicated over time. Increasingly, shifts in economic and political power in the Asia-Pacific have led to the adoption of new strategies to engage both politically and economically with each other. Likewise, both India’s and China’s influence is expanding geographically as well as across political, economic and even military dimensions.