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Beyond America's Grasp
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2009; US$ 15.99AN INCISIVE ?WHITE PAPER? ON THE UNITED STATES?S STRUGGLE TO FRAME A COHERENT MIDDLE EAST POLICY In this book, the Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen traces U.S. policy in the region back to the breakup of the Ottoman Empire, when the Great Powers failed to take crucial steps to secure peace there. He sees in that early diplomatic failure a... more...
The Future of Pakistan
Brookings Institution Press 2011; US$ 29.95With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the worlds second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the global jihad, location of perhaps the planets most dangerous borderlands, and armed with nuclear weapons, this South Asian nation will go a long way toward determining what the world... more...
Arming without Aiming
Brookings Institution Press 2010; US$ 24.95India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked a critical component?strategic military planning. India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening.... more...
Arming without Aiming
Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 24.95India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked a critical component?strategic military planning. India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening.... more...
Four Crises and a Peace Process
Brookings Institution Press 2009; US$ 24.95India and Pakistan, nuclear neighbors and rivals, fought the last of three major wars in 1971. Far from peaceful, however, the period since then has been one long crisis, punctuated by periods of peace. The long-disputed Kashmir issue continues to be both a cause and consequence of India-Pakistan hostility. Four Crises and a Peace Process... more...
Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990. Placing the crisis in the context of concurrent international events such as the fall of the Soviet Union, the authors draw out the lesson for present-day South Asian affairs. The book also makes... more...
Bones of the Maya
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 34.95During the last 20 years new techniques in osteology have yielded findings on Maya diet and health that challenge the ecological model of collapse. This volume, which includes an index bibliography of the first 150 years of Maya osteology, brings together for the first time, a broad spectrum of bioarchaeologists and reveals remarkable data on... more...
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