Summary This new volume explores what the acquisition of nuclear weapons means for the life of a protracted conflict. The book argues that the significance…
Country or Region: Pakistan
Publisher’s Note The January 2013 clash in Kashmir emphasizes the need for a radical new approach: the United States should take the lead in changing…
Summary This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between…
From the publisher: Tactical nuclear weapons have become increasingly central to Pakistan’s nuclear thinking in the past three years, significantly raising the risks of nuclear warfighting…
Summary Economic growth and burgeoning populations have put South Asia’s energy security in a perilous state. Already energy and power shortages are stunting development in…
Abstract Violence in the Kashmir Valley has dramatically declined since 2003, but this has not created a stable political order. India has not succeeded in…
Abstract The strategic culture of South Asia is characterized by the hostility between India and Pakistan. Conventional arms’ race, wars, growing insecurity and ultimately nuclearization…
Abstract The deterioration of Afghanistan should give Washington and European capitals pause. Current policy toward Pakistan does not serve their interests in the ‘war on terrorism’ or…
Summary Dennis Kux’s book possesses a wealth of new information, based partly on fresh research in published and archival sources, but based even more impressively…
Summary The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance,…
Summary The tribal region bordering Afghanistan, known as FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Area), has always been only loosely under government control. But since 2001 it…
Summary In 60 years the nuclear tipped South Asian enduring rivals, India and Pakistan have fought four wars and were close to a fifth one…
Summary This work discusses Pakistan’s foreign policy over three decades. Pakistan’s relations with the major powers, with its neighbours and the Muslim world are examined.…
Summary Beginning in 1947, when “India and Pakistan were born to conflict,” renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is…
Summary Based on declassified documents, the book throws new light on the roles played by Mountbatten and the British service chiefs in the Kashmir war…
