India's World is a collection of news- paper columns and essays on India's immediate foreign policy and security. concerns written between 1999 and 2005. Each of these essays is a carefully researched and in-depth look at a critical issue. As the author says in the preface, India's world is a very small place, but the problems neve- rtheless are thorny and many. Above all, they are not going to…
The breakdown of authoritarian regimes and the transition to more open forms of government and new market structures require extensive change, especially when such shifts lead to the disintegration of previous political, social, and economic systems. In his exploration of the Portuguese case, Lawrence Graham contends that during transitions the absence of a civilian-based opposition movement wi…
Realpolitik Ideology presents path-breaking research on the Indonesian military (TNI) going beyond traditional scholarship on the TNI's dual function or dwifungsi which has been one of the dominating fields of analysis in Indonesian studies since the 1970s. Addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, anthropologists and defence practitioners, this book interprets security polic…
The volume attempts to explain the prevailing civil-military equations in India and Pakistan by examining the plethora of historical, politic and military factors that have shaped the present-day political environment. As leaders in New Delhi and Islamabad appear more determined than ever before, to embark upon nuclear weaponization, there is now a much greater urgency to understand the politic…
This book offers a comprehensive guide to identifying the means by which interrelationships of armed services and society can be explored and explained. It indicates the salient variables in these relationships, examines existing theories of civil-military relations, and sets out an overarching theory that seeks to provide both explanations for changes and a tool for prediction.
On the day of the meeting [September 4, 2001], Clarke sent Rice an impassioned personal note. He criticized U.S. counterterrorism efforts past and present. The 'real question' before the principals, he wrote, was 'are we serious about dealing with the al-Qida threat?...Is al-Qida a big deal?...Decision makers should imagine themselves on a future day when the CSG has not succeeded in stopping a…
In this book, James Manicom contests the orthodox view that the strategic rivalry between China and Japan will escalate into a full blown military conflict. The book concedes that the East China Sea will be the likely medium for Sino-Japanese military rivalry and cyclical tensions will persist; however, it makes the compelling case that cooperation will endure.
A biography of Vietnamese military leader Vo Nguyen Giap, one of the great military commanders of the 20th century victorious in battles against, successively, the Japanese, the French & the Americans, Giap became North Vietnam's Minister for Defense & Commander in Chief. He worked with Ho Chi Minh to create the armies & the support for the under-equipped Vietnamese forces that would eventually…
This book contains: 1. Introductory: British supremacy in India 2. Outbreak of World War II and the demand of Pakistan 3. War, politics and the movement for Pakistan 4. War effort and the new realities 5. Postwar policies and the struggle for Pakistan 6. Mutinies and the civil war 7. Military question and the establishment.
The Kargil war came out of the blue after 28 years of peace in the subcontinent. It came in the wake of the well publicized bus diplomacy and the Lahore declaration which seemed to herald a new era of Indo-Pak relations. It caught the government of India, the army and the intelligence agencies flat footed. It shocked the Indian people. The war is perhaps over. The intruders have been mostly pus…