India\'s World : Essays on Foreign Policy and Security Issues
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Foreign policy : Pakistan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, etc.: 1. Still the great game! 2. The Pakistani nuclear Bombast! 3. Are interesting times ahead? 4. Hard times at a hard place. 5. Scratched across Pashtun hearts! 6. Fight-fight now. Talk-talk later! 7. Self-determination for Baluchistan? 8. The Papier-Mache Purush! 9. Abdul shutter and Sushma chatter! 10. India and Pakistan : the twain shall never meet? 11. The opiate of the masses? 12. Pundit slumbers and sardar dithers! 13. No new ideas. China and Russia/USSR: 14. The Se La debacle. 15. China watching from the Himalayas. 16. Shadow over Indo-Russian ties? 17. The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming! 18. No longer a great game. 19. Remember Rezang La? 20. A Sino-Soviet deal in 1962? 21. 1962. In dubious battle. USA and UK: 22. The end of the age. 23. TweedleBush and TweedleGore! 24. A wasted trip to the USA. 25. Living in the white man\'s world. 26. Eyeball to eyeball! 27. Let\'s not misunderestimate them! 28. The sin of Hubris. Nepal, Burma, Finland, UN, Israel, etc.: 29. Regicide in Nepal. 30. Asia\'s defining moments! 31. Choosing between the lesser of evils in Nepal. 32. Democratizing the United Nations! 33. Learning at the Finnish school! 34. India and Burma. 35. Fact and fiction in Israel. II. Security issues: 36. The death march of technology! 37. Economic prospects of an IOR Grouping? 38. Was it all worth it? 39. The lessons of global power? 40. A failure of policy. 41. The house that Kao built. 42. One is better than three! 43. How to save the Siachen from India and Pakistan? 44. Serving our national interest. 45. The Indian national interests and security. 46. Exploding myths! 47. Not a very intelligent move! 48. For fighting and not fun! 49. Not in the name of Mao.
"India\'s World is a collection of newspaper 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 nevertheless are thorny and many. Above all, they are not going to go away soon or easily. We ignore them either because they are nettlesome or because we forget history and often it is a bit of both, quite often we pay a heavy price. This book is also about how often and how much that price is." (jacket)
