LebowRichard Ned, Between Peace and War-The Nature of International Crisis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981), pp. 10–12.
2.
For example, several papers inKodikaraS.U., ed., South Asian Strategic Issues (New Delhi, Sage, 1990)
3.
New York Times, 23, 24April1987.
4.
Ibid., 26April1987.
5.
Referred to in The Statesman (edit.), 27May1987(hereinafter The Statesman would meanThe Statesman, Calcutta unless otherwise mentioned).
6.
The Telegraph (Calcutta), 1May1987.
7.
The Statesman, 3May1987.
8.
Ibid.
9.
Ibid., 4May1987.
10.
Ibid., 5May1987.
11.
The Telegraph, 9May1987; also, The Statesman, 9May1987.
12.
Ibid., 11May1987.
13.
Ibid., 12May1987.
14.
Ibid., 13May1987; also, The Statesman, 13May1987.
15.
The Statesman, 17May1987.
16.
The Telegraph, 19May1987.
17.
The Statesman, 25May1987.
18.
New York Times, 27, 31May1987; India Today, 30June1987, pp. 31–33.
19.
The Statesman, 28May1987.
20.
Ibid. Also, India Today, 30June1987, p. 28.
21.
Ibid., 29May1987.
22.
23.
The Telegraph, 30May1987.
24.
Ibid., 31May1987.
25.
The Statesman (Delhi), 1June1987.
26.
India Today, 30June1987, p. 34; also, New York Times, 2June1987.
27.
The Statesman (Delhi), 2June1987; also, SivarajahA., “Indo-Sri Lankan Relations and Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Crisis: The Tamil Nadu Factor,” in KodikaraS.U., p. 149.
28.
29.
Ibid., Also, New York Times, 2June1987.
30.
31.
Ibid., 3June1987. The New York Times, 3June1987 reported, “Sri Lanka and India appeared headed for confrontation.”
32.
33.
India Today, 30June1987, p. 28.
34.
The Statesman (Delhi), 4June1987.
35.
Ibid., and India Today, 30June1987, p. 28.
36.
Ibid., 1, 4June1987. Also, India Today, 30June1987, p. 27.
37.
Ibid., 5June1987; New York Times, 5June1987.
38.
India Today, 30June1987, p. 27.
39.
The Statesman (Delhi), 5June1987.
40.
Interview of HameedA.C.S. in India Today, 30June1987, p. 30.
41.
The Statesmancalled the former“India’s gunboat dislomacy,”and termed the latter as“impetuous adventurism,”4 and 18June1987 respectively. The New York Times saw in these “India’s growing aspirations to regional power status” and accused GandhiRajiv“of fanning flames of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka,”5June1987. India Today labelled the airdorp as a “purely face saving gesture,”30June1987, p. 29. Frontlinedescribed the airdrop as a“clear intervention” and a “military action though for a humanitarian purpose,”27June6July1987, p. 20.
42.
Frontline, 27June6July1987, p. 17.
43.
HolstiOle R.BrodyRichard A.NorthRobert C., “The Management of International Crisis,” in SmallMelvinSingerJ.D., eds, International War-An Anthology (Chicago: The Dorsey Press, 1989), pp. 288–99
44.
The Statesman, 7March1987.
45.
The Telegraph, 17March1987; Frontline, 27June6July1987, p. 19.
46.
Ibid., 27March1987; The Statesman, 28March1987.
47.
Frontline, 27June - 6July1987, p. 19.
48.
The Statesman, 28May1987. See also, IhigertyDevin T., “India’s Regional Security Doctrine,”Asian Survey3 (April1991): 355. In this connection it is necessary to point out that following the flotilla incident, both U.S.A. and Pakistan urged India and Sri Lanka to resolve their dilfcrcncc regarding food supply amicably and peacefully.The Statesman, 4June1987.
49.
The Statesman (Delhi), 4June1987.
50.
Ibid., 3June1987.
51.
52.
The Statesman (Delhi). 4June1987.
53.
India Today, 30June1987, p. 27.
54.
The Statesman (Delhi), 3June1987.
55.
SteinJanice Gross, “Reassurance in International Conflict Management,”Political Science Quarterly106 (3, 1991): 450.
56.
Lebow, p. 23.
57.
Ibid., p. 57.
58.
Frontline, 27June - 6July1987, pp. 19–20; also, India Today, 30June1987, p. 29.
59.
Lebow, pp. 62–79.
60.
India Today, 15April1987, pp. 68ff.
61.
Frontline, 18April-1May, 1987, pp. 14ff.
62.
India Today, 29February1988, p. 27.
63.
SenguptaBhabani, Rajiv Gandhi-A Political Study (Delhi: Konark Publishers, 1989), p. 169.
64.
Ibid., pp. 175ff.
65.
Ibid., pp. 160–61. Also, CohenS.P., “Balancing Interests: The U.S. and the Subcontinent,”The National Interest, Fall1987, 80. Cohen considers the relief mission to Sri Lanka as another instance of frustration-drive action.
66.
See Basu’sJyoti interview to Frontline, 4-17Arpil1987, pp. 12–13.
67.
India Today30June1987, p. 43.
68.
This in a way confirms Buzan’s view of the security problem in the Third Wrold where he finds“the primarily external orientation of the concept (of national security) gives way to an increasigly domestic agenda of threat.” See BuzanBarry, “People, States and Fear: The National Security Problem in the Third World,” in AzarEdward E.MoonChung-in, eds., National Security in the Third World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), esp. pp. 23ff.
