Combating terrorism in India and Pakistan: A review of the role of United States of America

The 9/11 incident has marked a new paradigm in International Relation. After a decade, the study of global politics has gone through significant transformations. The trajectories of incidents have changed completely when non-state actors are directly challenging not only the military, economic and technological dominance of states but are also having a tremendous impact on the concept of “Governance”. As this new wave of world order has brought transformations all through, this paper tries to analyses and observes the impact of this new order in the matters of governance in the two neighboring states of India and Pakistan. How the very concept of global governance has slackened the process of confidence building between these two nations as India being a victim of it and Pakistan using it as a state policy, how significant terrorism has been for the two nations, and what role is played by the United States in the whole process, either as a mediator, or a pacifier, focusing on the terror factor and its impact on governance, will be discussed. The paper will also try to highlight that how; these two nation's focus on settling goals with each other is impacting their Internal and External governance.