Shaping International Personalities

In this chapter I wish to consider the patterns of statehood that India and Pakistan chose to emulate, and to enquire deeper into their provenance. In many ways, their approaches to determining the course of their international behavior look remarkably similar: informed by the same objectives, and tempered by the same considerations. What also comes across is the fact that both India and Pakistan accepted a common set of rules about how states ought to behave—their pursuits within these frameworks might have occasionally varied, but their objectives were defined by a common set of concerns.