ABSTRACT
The South Asian continent is home to one of the most hotly contested enduring dyadic rivalries in the international system. India and Pakistan have fought three wars since the partition of the South Asian continent in 1947, with numerous violent clashes in between. Organizational culture has been elaborated upon in the literature on international organizations, especially Barnett and Finnemore's important work. In the last decade, constructivist approaches to international institutions, rooted in sociological institutionalism, has flourished. The organizational culture literature espoused by Barnett and Finnemore is specifically formulated to the international organizations literature. A common explanation of the source of wars in South Asia, and a strong alternative explanation to the offensive bias thesis, is that conflict is a "result of a rivalry over mutually incompatible principles of legitimacy". The 1965 Indo-Pakistan War developed out of escalation resulting from the infiltration of over 7,000 Pakistani insurgents into Kashmir, occupied by India on August 5, 1965.
