One fifth of the world's people live in India and Pakistan. Looking back on their first fifty years of independence, leading specialists on South Asia assess their progress and problems, their foreign and defense policies and their relations with the United States. The three coeditors, who compare the achievements of India and Pakistan in a perceptive introductory overview, combine journalistic, diplomatic and academic experience. Selig S. Harrison served as South Asia Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, Paul H. Kreisberg is a former Deputy Chairman of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, and Dennis Kux is a former Director of the India Desk in the State Department.
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One fifth of the world's people live in India and Pakistan. Looking back on their first fifty years of independence, leading specialists on South Asia assess their progress and problems, their foreign and defense policies and their relations with the United States. The three coeditors, who compare the achievements of India and Pakistan in a perceptive indtroductory overview, combine journalistic, diplomatic and academic experience. Selig S. Harrison served as South Asia Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, Paul H. Kreisberg is a former Deputy Chairman of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, and Dennis Kux is a former Director of the India Desk in the State Department.
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Democracy is one of the most overused and misused words in the vocabulary of politics, covering a wide variety of governmental forms, social systems, and political practices. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, South Asia, New Delhi, Soviet Union, New York, Oxford University Press, Indira Gandhi, Westview Press, Scheduled Castes, World Bank, Nawaz Sharif, East Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Rajiv Gandhi, Supreme Court, United Nations, University of California Press, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Golden Growth Path, Middle East, Muslim League, Research Foundation, Uttar Pradesh, Cambridge University Press, Ghulam Ishaq Khan New!
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Democracy is one of the most overused and misused words in the vocabulary of politics, covering a wide variety of governmental forms, social systems, and political practices. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, South Asia, New Delhi, Soviet Union, New York, Oxford University Press, Indira Gandhi, Westview Press, Scheduled Castes, World Bank, Nawaz Sharif, East Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Rajiv Gandhi, Supreme Court, United Nations, University of California Press, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Golden Growth Path, Middle East, Muslim League, Research Foundation, Uttar Pradesh, Cambridge University Press, Ghulam Ishaq Khan New!
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- South Asia (Current History Books) by Sumit Ganguly on 6 pages
- Pakistan: A Country Study (Area Handbook Series) by Peter R. Blood on page 103, page 152, and page 187
- Democracy and Economic Change in India by George Rosen on page 65, and page 88
- Contemporary Problems of Pakistan by J. Henry Korson on page 61, and page 103
- Economic Development (The Political Economy of the Middle East Series) (v. 1) by Tim Niblock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- India in the World Order: Searching for Major-Power Status (Contemporary South Asia) by Baldev Raj Nayar on 5 pages
- Uneasy Neighbors: India, Pakistan And Us Foreign Policy (Us Foreign Policy and Conflict in the Islamic World) by Kanishkan Sathasivam in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Contemporary Pakistan by Veena Kukreja on page 59, and Back Matter
- India and the United States in a Changing World by Ashok Kapur on page 41, and page 102
- Government And Politics In South Asia: Fifth Edition by Yogendra K Malik on page 247
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