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“sunil dasgupta”

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  • Arming without Aiming

    India's Military Modernization

    by Sunil Dasgupta, Stephen P. Cohen ...
    India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources. But so far, the drive to rebuild has lacked a critical component-strategic military planning. India's approach of arming without strategic purpose remains viable, however, as it seeks great-power accommodation of its rise and does not want to appear threatening. What should we anticipate from this effort in the ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Arming without Aiming

    India's Military Modernization

    by Stephen P. Cohen, Sunil Dasgupta ...
    India's growing affluence has led experts to predict a major rearmament effort. The second-most populous nation in the world is beginning to wield the economic power expected of such a behemoth. Its border with Pakistan is a tinderbox, the subcontinent remains vulnerable to religious extremism, and a military rivalry between India and China could erupt in the future. India has long had the ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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    America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back

    by Bruce Riedel ...
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    India and Pakistan will be among the most important countries in the twenty-first century. In Avoiding Armageddon, Bruce Riedel clearly explains the challenge and the importance of successfully managing America's affairs with these two emerging powers and their toxic relationship.Born from the British Raj, the two nations share a common heritage, but they are different in many important ways. ... Read more

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  • The Rebel of Rangoon

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  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

    by Dmitry Rogozin ...
    The Hawks of Peace. Notes of Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his ... Read more

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  • Strategic Culture and Ways of War

    by Lawrence Sondhaus ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    A much-needed survey and synopsis of literature on strategic culture and ways of war.It clearly shows how national strategies and approaches to warfare are, to a significant extent, culturally determined. The concept of national ‘ways of war’ dates from the 1930s, when Basil H. Liddell Hart theorized that there was a ‘British Way in Warfare’.The concept of "strategic culture" dates from the 1970s, ... Read more

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  • Strategic Studies

    A Reader

    Edited by Thomas Mahnken, Joseph Maiolo ...
    The second edition of Strategic Studies: A Reader brings together key essays on strategic theory by some of the leading contributors to the field. This revised volume contains several new essays and updated introductions to each section.The volume comprises hard-to-find classics in the field as well as the latest scholarship. The aim is to provide students with a wide-ranging survey of the key ... Read more

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  • The Worst-Kept Secret

    Israel's Bargain with the Bomb

    by Avner Cohen ...
    Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age. It has created a special "bargain" with the bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that does not acknowledge its possession of the bomb, even though its existence is a common knowledge throughout the world. It only says that it will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons to the Middle East.The bomb is Israel's collective ... Read more

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  • Nuclear North Korea

    A Debate on Engagement Strategies

    by Victor Cha, David Kang ...
    The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad," "rogue," even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and existing scholarly literature on North Korean policy and security, this critical issue remains mired in political ... Read more

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  • Drones and the Future of Air Warfare

    The Evolution of Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    by Michael P. Kreuzer ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
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  • The South Asia Papers

    A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen

    by Stephen P. Cohen ...
    Covering the years 1962 to 2011, this volume includes the most provocative and important writings from Stephen Cohen's fifty-year career of observing South Asia-as a professor, as a government official, and, since 1998, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution. Several pieces have never been published in book form.The author begins with a critical look at his past writing-where he was right, and ... Read more

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  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
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    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Read more

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