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

By:

Riedel, Bruce O

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ebrary, Inc

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Brookings focus booksPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2013.Description: xv, 230 pSubject(s):

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Electronic books.

DDC classification:

327.73054 23

LOC classification:

DS341.3.U6 R54 2013eb

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An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.