This book deals with the complex and changing U.S. relations with India and Pakistan in the sixty years since World War II. It carries a series of brief sketches on how twelve U.S. presidents, starting with Franklin Roosevelt, perceived and dealt with South Asia. The author proposes that though there are broad historical patterns in which the policies and decisions of these American presidents can be classified, yet their unique personalities and ideological predispositions also played a role in the political choices they made. Since none of them ever had any substantial experience with South Asia prior to assuming office, probing the reasons for their preferences and decisions is an enlightening and interesting exercise.
With the unfolding of the South Asia policies of the new U.S. President, Barrack Obama, this book will provide the much needed background study to the readers.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Delightful and engaging, this slim and pithy first-hand account of the way the US' South Asia policy has been taking shape over the decades under successive American Presidents, could be described as a small but revealing window to the "goings on" in Washington with regard to India and Pakistan. While enabling the reader to place the US' relations with India and Pakistan in a historical perspective, the work opens a door of investigation to a host of issues currently punctuating the interstate relations of this region. -- Lynn Ockersz
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 140 mm
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ISBN-13
978-81-321-0121-5 (9788132101215)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Harold A. Gould is a Visiting Professor in the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. Previous to that he was Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at Washington University of St. Louis in 1959. Since going to India on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1954-1955, Dr Gould has made numerous research trips to India (with grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the University of Illinois Research Board); he spent more than a total of ten years in the country spread over more than fifty years. His research and scholarly publications encompass every facet of Indian society and civilization that is relevant for a social scientist/social historian, including rural society, social stratification, local-level politics, electoral processes, and national and international politics.
Prelude
World War II and the Roosevelt Administration
The Truman Administration 1945-1953
The Eisenhower Administration (1952-1961)
The Kennedy Administration (1961-1963)
The Johnson Administration (1963 to 1969)
The Nixon Administration (1969-1974)
The Ford Administration (1974-1977)
The Carter Administration (1977-1981)
The Reagan Administration (1981-1989)
The Bush-1 Administration (1989-1993)
The Clinton Administration (1993-2001)
The Bush-2 Administration (2001-2009)
Postscript
Notes
References
Index
