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“sunil dasgupta”

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  • Arming without Aiming

    India's Military Modernization

    by Sunil Dasgupta, Stephen P. Cohen ...
    India 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. What should we anticipate from this effort in the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Arming without Aiming

    India's Military Modernization

    by Stephen P. Cohen, Sunil Dasgupta ...
    India's growing affluence has led experts to predict a major rearmament effort. The second-most populous nation in the world is beginning to wield the economic power expected of such a behemoth. Its border with Pakistan is a tinderbox, the subcontinent remains vulnerable to religious extremism, and a military rivalry between India and China could erupt in the future. India has long had the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Avoiding Armageddon

    America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

    by Bruce Riedel ...
    Series series Brookings FOCUS Book
    India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century. In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel clearly explains the challenge and the importance of successfully managing America's affairs with these two emerging powers and their toxic relationship.Born from the British Raj, the two nations share a common heritage, but they are different in many important ways. ... Read more

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  • The Rebel of Rangoon

    A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma

    by Delphine Schrank ...
    One of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2015An epic, multigenerational story of courage and sacrifice set in a tropical dictatorship, The Rebel of Rangoon captures a gripping moment of possibility in Burma (Myanmar)Once the shining promise of Southeast Asia, Burma in May 2009 ranks among the world's most repressive and impoverished nations. Its ruling military junta seems to be at the height of its ... Read more

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  • The Worst-Kept Secret

    Israel's Bargain with the Bomb

    by Avner Cohen ...
    Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age. It has created a special "bargain" with the bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that does not acknowledge its possession of the bomb, even though its existence is a common knowledge throughout the world. It only says that it will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East.The bomb is Israel's collective ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Nuclear North Korea

    A Debate on Engagement Strategies

    by Victor Cha, David Kang ...
    The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad," "rogue," even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and existing scholarly literature on North Korean policy and security, this critical issue remains mired in political ... Read more

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  • The South Asia Papers

    A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen

    by Stephen P. Cohen ...
    Covering the years 1962 to 2011, this volume includes the most provocative and important writings from Stephen Cohen's fifty-year career of observing South Asia-as a professor, as a government official, and, since 1998, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution. Several pieces have never been published in book form.The author begins with a critical look at his past writing-where he was right, and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Read more

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  • Strategy in the American War of Independence

    A Global Approach

    Edited by Donald Stoker, Kenneth J. Hagan, Michael T. McMaster ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context.Many do not realize the extent to which the 1775 colonial rebellion against British rule escalated into a global conflict. Collectively, this volume examines the strategies pursued by the American Colonies, Great Britain, France, ... Read more

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  • Managing India's Nuclear Forces

    by Verghese Koithara ...
    India is now enmeshed in the deterrence game-actively with its traditional adversary Pakistan, and potentially with China. At the same time it is finding easier access to fissile materials and strategic technologies. In order to deal with these developments safely and wisely, the nation needs a much more sophisticated and multidisciplinary understanding of the strategic, technological, operational ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East

    Strategic Contest

    by Richard L. Russell ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East. It examines the uses and limitations of chemical weapons in regional combat, ballistic missile warfare and defenses, as well as Iran's drive for nuclear weapons and the likely regional reactions should ... Read more

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  • The Battle for China's Spirit

    Religious Revival, Repression, and Resistance under Xi Jinping

    by Sarah Cook ...
    The Battle for China’s Spirit is the first comprehensive analysis of its kind, focusing on seven major religious groups in China that together account for over 350 million believers: Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Tibetan Buddhism, and Falun Gong. The study examines the evolution of the Communist Party’s policies of religious control, how they are applied differently ... Read more

    $45.39 USD