ABSTRACT
India-Pakistan relations is a unique relationship in international politics that poses many challenges to the discipline and challenges the old dichotomous debate of agency versus structure. The issue of agency arises given the high level of political and cultural similarity prior to colonial rule, juxtaposed with the structure of sovereignty imposed in 1947. Indo-Pakistan relations is a rich empirical vein to tap into for anyone wanting to develop theories that join structure with agency because of the interests and identities that made up the justification for partition and the different philosophical foundations on which the two states were founded in 1947.
