LEADER 04377nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910817986403321 005 20240410154037.0 010 $a0-8157-9759-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000381192 035 $a(OCoLC)609309397 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10078495 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000147414 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11161785 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147414 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10011416 035 $a(PQKB)11759879 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3004447 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3004447 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10078495 035 $a(OCoLC)59757749 035 $a(OCoLC)1228615428 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_31434 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000381192 100 $a20040601d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEngaging India$b[electronic resource] $ediplomacy, democracy, and the bomb /$fStrobe Talbott 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8157-8300-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover -- Inside Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- The Lost Half Century -- The Desert Rises -- The Mountain Turns White -- Jaswant's Village -- Stuck on the Tarmac -- Soft Stonewalling -- The Avatar of Evil -- From Kargil to Blair House -- Sisyphus at India House -- A Guest in the Parliament -- Unfinished Business -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover. 330 $aOn May 11, 1998, three nuclear devices detonated under the Thar Desert in India shook the surrounding villages--and the rest of the world. The immediate effect was to plunge U.S.-India relations, already vexed by decades of tension and estrangement, into a new crisis. The situation deteriorated further when Pakistan responded in kind two weeks later, testing a nuclear weapon for the first time. Engaging India is the firsthand story of the diplomacy conducted between the United States and the two South Asian neighbors after the nuclear tests. In this book, the American point man for the dialogue takes us behind the scenes of one of the most suspenseful and consequential diplomatic dramas of our time, reconstructing what happened--and why--with narrative verve, rich human detail, and penetrating analysis. From June 1998 to September 2000, in what was the most extensive dialogue ever between the United States and India, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Indian Minister of External Affairs Jaswant Singh met fourteen times in seven countries on three continents. They discussed both the immediate items on the security and nonproliferation agenda, as well as their wider visions for the U.S.-India relationship and the potential for economic and strategic cooperation between the two countries. As the relationship improved over the course of the talks, the United States was to able play a role in averting the possibility of nuclear war over the contested territory of Kashmir in the summer of 1999--the specifics of which are included for the first time in this book, told in way only a protagonist can. The Talbott-Singh diplomacy laid the groundwork for the transformational visit of President Bill Clinton to India in March 2000 and helped end fifty years of estrangement between the world's two largest democracies. As pursuit of Islamic militants 330 8 $acontinues across South Asia, the increased cooperation established by Talbott and Singh will be an invaluable. 606 $aAtomic bomb$zIndia 606 $aAtomic bomb$zPakistan 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zPakistan 607 $aPakistan$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aIndia$xMilitary policy 607 $aPakistan$xMilitary policy 615 0$aAtomic bomb 615 0$aAtomic bomb 676 $a327.73054/09/049 700 $aTalbott$b Strobe$0675652 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817986403321 996 $aEngaging India$93990669 997 $aUNINA