The South Asia Papers: A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen

by Stephen P. Cohen The Brookings Institution

Overview

This curated collection examines Stephen Philip Cohen’s impressive body of work.

Stephen Philip Cohen, the Brookings scholar who virtually created the field of South Asian security studies, has curated a unique collection of the most important articles, chapters, and speeches from his fifty-year career. Cohen, often described as the “dean” of U.S. South Asian studies, is a dominant figure in the fields of military history, military sociology, and South Asia’s strategic emergence.

Cohen introduces this work with a critical look at his past writing—where he was right, where he was wrong. This exceptional collection includes materials that have never appeared in book form, including Cohen’s original essays on the region’s military history, the transition from British rule to independence, the role of the armed forces in India and Pakistan, the pathologies of India-Pakistan relations, South Asia’s growing nuclear arsenal, and America’s fitful (and forgetful) regional policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815728344
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/12/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	396
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Stephen Philip Cohen is a senior fellow in the India Project within the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. He joined Brookings after a career as a professor of political science and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he created the world’s first program devoted to South Asian security studies. He was a member of Secretary of State George Shultz’s policy planning staff during the Reagan administration between 1985 and 1987. In 2004 he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America as one of America’s 500 Most Influential People in the area of foreign policy.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

1 Approaching India's Military and Security Policy, with a Detour through Disaster Studies 1

2 Rulers and Priests: A Study of Cultural Control 25

3 Issue, Role, and Personality: The Kitchener-Curzon Dispute 46

4 Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army 65

5 The Untouchable Soldier: Caste, Politics, and the Indian Army 85

6 The Military in Indira Gandhi's India 103

7 Toward a Great State in Asia? 129

8 The State Is Dead: Long Live the Armed Ethnic Group 151

9 Solving Proliferation Problems in a Regional Context: South Asia 160

10 State Building in Pakistan 188

11 The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan 220

12 India and Pakistan: The Armed Forces 240

13 Kashmir: The Roads Ahead 254

14 The Reagan Administration and India: Right for the Right Reasons? 270

15 The Critical Dimensions of a Possible U.S. Strategic Partnership with India 282

16 How a Botched U.S. Alliance Fed Pakistan's Crisis 292

Epilogue 303

Notes 321

Index 367

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Stephen Cohen's India: Emerging Power

Steve Cohen’s mastery of India, and India’s security and military strategy, and the dramatic changes which have taken place in India since Independence are well and clearly presented. . . .
—Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, former under secretary of state for political affairs and U.S. ambassador to India

Cohen masterfully navigates through the complex features of India’s democracy to depict both continuity and change in a state that is growing more confident and more powerful. . . .
—Ashley Tellis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Praise for The Idea of Pakistan

Cohen is the United States’ leading analyst of South Asia, and this authoritative work of broad scope and meticulous research will surely become required reading on Pakistan.
—Foreign Affairs

A lucid, penetrating, and brilliantly constructed book on the state and nation of Pakistan. Cohen, an old South Asia hand, brings to the fore all his knowledge and expertise of one of America’s most important allies in the war against terror.
—A Choice Outstanding Title

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