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Having examined how the Indo-Pakistan rivalry provides the major dynamics for the South Asian security complex, we now turn to investigate the role of the smaller states of South Asia in shaping the security complex. Here we are primarily concerned with fear interrelated questions: the first is to ascertain the role of the smaller states in the rivalry between India and Pakistan and to determine if they make any tangible difference in that conflict; second, we examine the importance of some of the smaller states as buffers between South Asia and its neighbouring complexes and to see if they continue to perform their historical role for which they had been set up; third, we assess the role of these states in facilitating penetration by external powers of the complex; and finally, of course, to determine whether the character of the complex preserves or erodes or enhances the independent status of the smaller states.
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Rizvi, G. (1986). The Role of the Smaller States in the South Asian Complex. In: South Asian Insecurity and the Great Powers. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07939-1_5
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