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Avoiding Armageddon : America, India, and Pakistan to the brink and back / Bruce Riedel.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Riedel, Bruce O.
Series:
Brookings focus books.
Brookings focus books
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Terrorism--South Asia--Prevention.
Terrorism.
Nuclear arms control--South Asia.
Nuclear arms control.
United States--Foreign relations--South Asia.
United States.
South Asia--Foreign relations--United States.
South Asia.
India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.
India.
Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.
Pakistan.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (354 p.)
Place of Publication:
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
"Traces the history of the United States, India, and Pakistan as British colonies and their interaction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly in regard to relations between India and Pakistan, nuclear proliferation, the global jihad movement, and U.S. diplomatic efforts to stabilize conditions on the subcontinent"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Mumbai on fire
America, the Raj, and partition
In the shadow of the Cold War: the first forty years
The Carter and Reagan years
From crisis to crisis: Bush and Clinton
Bush, Mush, and Sonia
Obama and South Asia
Promoting game change in South Asia.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
ISBN:
9781299055889
1299055885
9780815724094
0815724098
OCLC:
826652864

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