The conflict in Kashmir, reignited in May 2025 with Pakistan’s drone strike on Indian positions in Kupwara and India’s retaliatory air and artillery operations across the Line of Control, is frequently misconstrued as a territorial dispute between two nuclear-armed states. Such a framing, rooted in the assumptions of a Westphalian international system, fails to capture … Leggi tutto India vs. Pakistan in Kashmir: Symbolic Conflict and the Dawn of Neo-Medieval Geopolitics