Stephen P. Cohen's The South Asia Papers: A Critical Anthology of Writings by PDF

By Stephen P. Cohen

ISBN-10: 0815728336

ISBN-13: 9780815728337

ISBN-10: 9352640195

ISBN-13: 9789352640195

This curated assortment examines Stephen Philip Cohen’s awesome physique of work.

Stephen Philip Cohen, the Brookings student who nearly created the sphere of South Asian protection reviews, has curated a distinct selection of an important articles, chapters, and speeches from his fifty-year occupation. Cohen, frequently defined because the “dean” of U.S. South Asian reports, is a dominant determine within the fields of army background, army sociology, and South Asia’s strategic emergence.

Cohen introduces this paintings with a severe examine his earlier writing—where he used to be correct, the place he used to be flawed. This unheard of assortment contains fabrics that experience by no means seemed in e-book shape, together with Cohen’s unique essays at the region’s army historical past, the transition from British rule to independence, the position of the military in India and Pakistan, the pathologies of India-Pakistan family, South Asia’s growing to be nuclear arsenal, and America’s fitful (and forgetful) local policy.

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