TY - BOOK AU - Riedel,Bruce O. TI - Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the brink and back T2 - Brookings focus books SN - 9780815724087 (hardcover : acidfree paper) AV - DS341.3.U6 R54 2013 U1 - 327.73054 RIE 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Washington PB - Brooking Institution Press KW - Terrorism KW - South Asia KW - Prevention KW - Nuclear arms control KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - India KW - Pakistan N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -