Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the brink and back

✍ Scribed by Riedel, Bruce O

• Book ID: 100655216
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 212 KB
• Series: Brookings focus books
• Category: Fiction
• City: India--Pakistan., India--United States., Pakistan--India., Pakistan--United States., South Asia--Uni
• ISBN: 081572408X

✦ Synopsis

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. India is already the world's largest democracy and will soon become the planet's most populous nation. Pakistan, soon to be the fifth most populous country, has a troubled history of military coups, dictators, and harboring terrorists such as Osama bin Laden.

The longtime rivals are nuclear powers, with tested weapons. They have fought four wars with each other and have gone to the brink of war several times. Meanwhile, U.S. presidents since Franklin Roosevelt have been increasingly involved in the region's affairs. In the past two decades alone, the White House has...

✦ Subjects

United States