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

Riedel, Bruce O.

Avoiding Armageddon : America, India, and Pakistan to the brink and back - Washington Brooking Institution Press 2013 - xv, 230 pages ; 23 cm. - Brookings focus books . - Brookings focus books. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-218) and index.

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.

"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.

9780815724087 (hardcover : acidfree paper)

2012046847


Terrorism--Prevention.--South Asia
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.

DS341.3.U6 / R54 2013

327.73054 RIE