Prologue: The spider's web -- Settling a score: from 1947 to the nuclear tests -- "A brilliant tactical operation": Pakistan's defeat in the Kargil War of 1999 -- The general and the poet: from the Kargil War to the Agra summit -- The assassins from afar: Pakistan and Afghanista…
Tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan since 1998.
Tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan since 1998.
In 1974 India exploded an atomic device. In May 1998 the new right-wing BJP Government set off several more, encountering in the process domestic plaudits, but also international condemnation and possibly sparking a new nuclear arms race in South Asia. What explains the enthusia…
Robert Wirsing examines he Indian-Pakistani conflict over Kashmir. He takes as his focus the period from the effective nuclearization of the dispute in 1998 to the arrival of US forces in the region as a consequence of international intervention in Afghanistan.
Robert Wirsing examines he Indian-Pakistani conflict over Kashmir. He takes as his focus the period from the effective nuclearization of the dispute in 1998 to the arrival of US forces in the region as a consequence of international intervention in Afghanistan.