<p>(Note for Jacket--see Marketing File-so/10/26]The vast, politically turbulent region encompassing the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, forty-two littoral states, and one third of the world's population is one of the most potentially explosive theaters of superpower rivalry. In this study, three American and three Indian authors, reflecting different perspectives and areas of expertise, examine the principal factors that have led to the escalation of superpower tensions in the region: the war in Afghanistan, and its spillover into the Afghanistan-Pakistani borderlands; the Indo-Pakistani nuclear arms race; ethnic tensions in Sri Lanka; the Iran-Iraq war; Islamic fundamentalism; and the rapidly growing military presence of the superpowers in the area. Considering how India's emergence as a military power is influencing superpower and indigenous tensions in the region, the contributors compare Indian, American, and Soviet interests, and offer solutions for current Indian-American disagreements.<br></p>

Superpower Rivalry in the Indian Ocean: Indian and American Perspectives

Business & Money

Harrison, Selig S.

Subrahmanyam, K.

Economics

Oxford University Press

This book, Nuclear Myths and Realities: India's Dilemma, brings together nine papers, written by eight scholars at the Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, concerned with the military and civil uses of nuclear energy. The authors treat these technical issues without a single mathematical equation, with no graphs, and no chemical formulas. Apparently, in India and other countries, the defense and military uses of nuclear energy are considered to be in the realm of political science, history, or law rather than in the hard sciences. Serious reading of the book requires that technical personnel acquire a new vocabulary. Examples are: 1. crypto-nuclear states 2. free-form weapons of mass destruction 3. horizontal versus vertical proliferation 4. pariah states 5. subsidiary alliance system...

Nuclear Myths and Realities: India's Dilemma

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