Enduring and emerging issues in South Asian security

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Enduring and emerging issues in South Asian security

edited by Šumit Ganguly, Dinshaw Mistry

Brookings Institution Press, c2022

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  • U.S. foreign policy and security and governance in South Asia / Dinshaw Mistry
  • Pakistan, India, and U.S. strategic interests / Dinshaw Mistry
  • Security issues in Sino-Indian relations / Šumit Ganguly
  • Governance challenges : legitimacy and citizenship in China and India / Edward Kolodziej
  • Cooperation and defection cycles in India-Pakistan relations / Kanti Bajpai
  • Nuclear stability in South Asia / Dinshaw Mistry
  • Building up the Indian air force / Amit Gupta
  • Pakistan's political culture and its implications for democracy / Marvin G. Weinbaum
  • Baloch nationalism and the garrison state in Pakistan / Kavita R. Khory
  • Internal security threats in Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, and other cases : learning from comparative responses / Chetan Kumar

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Paying tribute to a noted scholar by digging deep into the issues he explored.Long-time Brookings senior fellow Stephen Philip Cohen was the first American scholar to work in the field of South Asian security studies. He largely defined the field, trained many of is leading analysts, and was himself its most experienced and insightful scholar-practitioner until his death in 2019. This book of essays by several of his students who have made an impact on the field, along contributions from academics who knew Cohen well as well as former students in policy fields, is an intellectual homage to Cohen. It is also an impressive overview of a number of the vital questions facing the nations of that region as well as their neighbors both near and far. Major enduring issues in regional security include India-Pakistan relations, India-China relations, conventional forces-and perhaps the most sensitive issue of all, nuclear weapons. But other important issues remain underexplored, especially outside the region, and are addressed in this book. They include Pakistan's political culture, the politics of the insurgency in Baluchistan, political legitimacy and governance in India and China, and internal security threats facing Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and the Maldives. Governments and societies in the region have grappled with these issues for decades, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. To varying degrees, the issues have important implications for U.S. foreign policy in and beyond South Asia. Anyone interested in the security of South Asia will be rewarded with new insights from academics and analysts who address a wide range of subjects Stephen Philip Cohen covered during his long and distinguished career.

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