Title: Fierce enigmas
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"--
Subjects: American Economic assistance, American Humanitarian assistance, American Military assistance, Foreign relations, History, United states, foreign relations, asia, South asia, foreign relations, HISTORY, India & South Asia, Southeast Asia, 19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Geopolitics, International Relations, World, Asian, Diplomatic relations
Places: United States, South Asia, South Asian