Fierce enigmas
Subtitle: a History of the United States in South Asia
By: Srinath Raghavan
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780465030194
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: American Economic assistance; American Humanitarian assistance; American Military assistance; Foreign relations; History
Description: "South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America's engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts-secular and religious-to remake the world in its image"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-460) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fortune, fantasy, and faith; title: Under American eyes; title: Fighting for freedom; title: Allies and aid; title: New frontier in South Asia; title: The dangerous decade; title: Sowing in the wind; title: In the unipolar world; title: The new century.