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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820927303321

Autore

Riedel Bruce O

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-05588-5

0-8157-2409-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Brookings focus books

Disciplina

327.73054

Soggetti

Terrorism - South Asia - Prevention

Nuclear arms control - South Asia

United States Foreign relations South Asia

South Asia Foreign relations United States

India Foreign relations Pakistan

Pakistan Foreign relations India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.