Avoiding Armageddon
Subtitle: America, India, and Pakistan to the brink and back
By: Bruce Riedel
Series: Brookings focus books; Brookings focus books
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780815724087
Subjects: Nuclear arms control; Terrorism; Foreign relations; Prevention
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mumbai on fire; title: America, the Raj, and partition; title: In the shadow of the Cold War: the first forty years; title: The Carter and Reagan years; title: From crisis to crisis: Bush and Clinton; title: Bush, Mush, and Sonia; title: Obama and South Asia; title: Promoting game change in South Asia.