Engaging India : diplomacy, democracy, and the bomb / Strobe Talbott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talbott, Strobe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb--India.

Atomic bomb.

Atomic bomb--Pakistan.

United States--Foreign relations--India.

United States.

India--Foreign relations--United States.

India.

United States--Foreign relations--Pakistan.

Pakistan--Foreign relations--United States.

Pakistan.

India--Military policy.

Pakistan--Military policy.

Talbott, Strobe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On May 11, 1998, three nuclear devices detonated under the Thar Desert in India shook the surrounding villages--and the rest of the world. The immediate effect was to plunge U.S.-India relations, already vexed by decades of tension and estrangement, into a new crisis. The situation deteriorated further when Pakistan responded in kind two weeks later, testing a nuclear weapon for the first time. Engaging India is the firsthand story of the diplomacy conducted between the United States and the two South Asian neighbors after the nuclear tests. In this book, the American point man for the dialogue takes us behind the scenes of one of the most suspenseful and consequential diplomatic dramas of our time, reconstructing what happened--and why--with narrative verve, rich human detail, and penetrating analysis. From June 1998 to September 2000, in what was the most extensive dialogue ever between the United States and India, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Indian Minister of External Affairs Jaswant Singh met fourteen times in seven countries on three continents. They discussed both the immediate items on the security and nonproliferation agenda, as well as their wider visions for the U.S.-India relationship and the potential for economic and strategic cooperation between the two countries. As the relationship improved over the course of the talks, the United States was to able play a role in averting the possibility of nuclear war over the contested territory of Kashmir in the summer of 1999--the specifics of which are included for the first time in this book, told in way only a protagonist can. The Talbott-Singh diplomacy laid the groundwork for the transformational visit of President Bill Clinton to India in March 2000 and helped end fifty years of estrangement between the world's two largest democracies. As pursuit of Islamic militants

continues across South Asia, the increased cooperation established by Talbott and Singh will be an invaluable.

Contents:

Front Cover

Inside Flap

Title Page

Copyright Information

Table of Contents

The Lost Half Century

The Desert Rises

The Mountain Turns White

Jaswant's Village

Stuck on the Tarmac

Soft Stonewalling

The Avatar of Evil

From Kargil to Blair House

Sisyphus at India House

A Guest in the Parliament

Unfinished Business

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815797593

0815797591

OCLC:

609309397