CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Gyurme, Kunsang |
|---|---|
| Title | The Sino-Indian Border Dispute: Implications of China’s Economic Reforms on the 1987 Border Conflict |
| Summary | This thesis builds on the existing works on the conflictual Sino-Indian relationship since birth of respective nations to the late 1980s. The first part of this thesis aims to examine the Sino-Indian relationship in two periods, 1947-1962 and 1978-1987. It investigates how two similar conflicts at the same border had different outcomes. I focus on the existing literature to determine the various factors that led to conflict in both periods. By employing the comparative political method, I show that economic interdependence factor was the variable that deescalated border conflict in 1987. The second part of the thesis applies the liberal view of economic interdependence and theory of trade expectations in the Sino-Indian case of the late 1980s. I argue that economic interdependence can explain the absence of war between the two nations. It shows that China’s economic reform and “open poor policy” had a huge impact on China’s prioritizing foreign trade and economic development since the reform was closely linked to the survival of communist regime. Thus China chose cooperation over war in the border conflict with India. As a result, border conflict between India and China did not escalate into a fully-fledged war in 1987. |
| Supervisor | Balcaite Indre |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/gyurme_kunsang.pdf |
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