Summary The economic growth of East and South-East Asia in the context of the global financial crisis has strengthened the view that this region is…
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Summary This volume brings together the work of ten leading experts on Korean politics to critically analyze the key factors and issues that are shaping…
Abstract This article critically evaluates the basis, aspirations, and prospects for bilateral security cooperation between Japan and South Korea. The assumption that common enemies, friends,…
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…
Abstract In response to the perceived inability of the Indian military to leverage its conventional superiority to end Pakistan’s “proxy war” in Kashmir, the Indian…
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…
From the author It is an authoritative and vivid account of the origins of the Kashmir conflict – based on more than forty interviews with…
Abstract This article re-examines the first Kashmir war between India and Pakistan on the basis of previously unavailable secret documents from the headquarters of the…
