Summary This book is unique in the way that it looks at the much talked about maritime security through the perspective of national security, without…
Publication Type: Books
Summary The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir was the first military clash between two nuclear-armed powers…
Summary The rise of China and India are undoubtedly a major feature of contemporary global politics. The relationship between the two rising Asian powers will…
Summary How is it that the United States—a country founded on a distrust of standing armies and strong centralized power—came to have the most powerful…
Summary Since Pakistan gained independence in 1947, only once has an elected government completed its tenure and peacefully transferred power to another elected government. In…
Summary In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia’s new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the…
Summary Why does the most highly advanced industrial country, commanding unparalleled access to vast sources of global intelligence and information, seem to so often miscalculate…
Summary This book examines the prospects and challenges of a global phase-out of highly enriched uranium—and the risks of this material otherwise being used by…
Summary Since the formal establishment of diplomatic ties between India and the Republic of Korea in 1973, the two countries have made significant progress and…
Summary Iranian politics has been marked by sharp ideological divisions and infighting. These divides, kept largely out of public view until the 1990s, came to…
Summary The United States and China are the two most important states in the international system and are crucial to the evolution of global order.…
Summary This book provides an authoritative account of how the US, British, and French armies have transformed since the end of the Cold War. All…
Summary Since Pakistan was founded in 1947, its army has dominated the state. The military establishment has locked the country in an enduring rivalry with…
Summary Debate surrounding “China’s rise,” and the prospects of its possible challenge to America’s preeminence, has focused on two questions: whether the United States should…
Summary One of the U.S. government’s leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country’s rise – and how Americans have been seduced into…
