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Fearful Symmetry
India-Pakistan Crises in the
Shadow of Nuclear Weapons
Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty
Shared Histories
A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue
Edited by Paul Scham, Walid Salem,
and Benjamin Pogrund
This book provides a
timely review of how India
and Pakistan have several
times nearly allowed their
grievances to lead to war
– and how, each time,
they managed to dodge
disaster.
– Steve Coll, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author of
Ghost Wars
This book asks an important
question: Why have
India and Pakistan not fought a major war in the
past two decade? It gives a crisp answer: nuclear
weapons. Along the way, the authors with a sure
touch explore the byways of Pakistani and Indian
political and military policies.
– Kenneth Waltz, author of A Theory of International
Politics
This lucid and comprehensive study of the two
nations’ crisis behavior in the nuclear age is the first
work on Indo-Pakistani relations to take systematic
account of the role played by the United States
in South Asia’s security dynamics over the past
two decades in the context of unipolarization and
formulates a blueprint for American policy toward
a more positive and productive India-Pakistan
relationship.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Wars without End?
3 1984: India, Pakistan, and Preventive War Fears
4 Threat Perceptions, Military Modernization, and a Crisis
5 The 1990 Kashmir Crisis
6 Out of the Closet: The 1998 Nuclear Tests Crisis
7 The Road to Kargil
8 The 2001-2 Indo-Pakistani Crisis: Exposing the Limits of
Coercive Diplomacy
9 Lessons, Implications, and Policy Suggestions
Index
2005, 188 pages, 6 x 9”
0-295-98635-2 / 978-0-295-98635-7
paper $29.95 CRO
There is no single history
of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. There are two.
This volume attempts to
present both histories
with parallel narratives
of key points in the 19th
and 20th centuries to
1948. The histories are
presented by 14 Israeli
and Palestinian experts,
joined by other historians,
journalists, and activists, who then discuss the
differences and similarities between their accounts.
The reader has the opportunity to witness, at
first hand, a respectful confrontation between the
competing versions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Contents
Foreword by Michael Burckhard Blanke
Introduction
1 Napoleon to Allenby: Processes of change in Palestine,
1800-1918 / Ruth Kark; Continuity and change in
Palestine: The last Ottoman period, 1856-1918 / Adel
Manna
2 The beginnings of Jewish settlement and Zionism,
to World War I / Ran Aaronsohn; The prehistory of
Palestinian nationalism / Issam Nassar
3 The Palestinian national movement, 1919-1939 / Manuel
Hassassian; Zionist diplomacy, 1914-1939 / Norman
Rose
4 The Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, and the
shaping of Israeli society / Dalia Ofer; The Holocaust in
the Palestinian perspective / Ata Qaymari
5 The UN Partition resolution of 1948: Why wasn’t it
implemented / Moshe Ma’oz; The paradox of the UN
1947 partition plan / Walid Salem
6 Israeli historiography of the 1948 War / Avraham Sela;
The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1947-48 /
Adel Yahya
7 Holiness and conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict /
Moshe Amirav; Jerusalem refugees and property claims
since the 1948 War / Salim Tamari;
Discussion; Glossary; Map; Further Reading; Index
2006, 304 pages, 6 x 9”
1-59874-013-X / 978-1-59874-013-4
paper $29.95 CRO
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