Paul M. McGarr (University of Nottingham)

The Cold War in South Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

This transnational history of the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan during the Cold War offers a new multidisciplinary perspective on the seminal post-independence period. Drawing on unpublished British, American, Indian and Soviet archival records it examines what benefits, if any, intervention conferred, and to whom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781107595507
• ISBN-10: 1107595509
• Artikelnr.: 44028618

Autorenporträt

Paul McGarr is Lecturer in US Foreign Policy in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on aspects of transnational politics, economics, defence, intelligence and security, and postcolonial culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. India, Pakistan and the early Cold War, 1947-57
2. Eisenhower, Macmillan and the 'New Look' at South Asia, 1958-60
3. The best of friends: Kennedy, Macmillan and Jawaharlal Nehru
4. Upsetting the apple cart: India's 'liberation' of Goa
5. Allies of a kind: Britain, the United States and the 1962 Sino-Indian War
6. Quagmire: the Anglo-American search for a Kashmir settlement
7. Realigning India: Western military aid and the threat from the north
8. The other transfer of power: Britain, the US and the Nehru-Shastri Transition
9. A bumpy ride: Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and South Asia
10. Triumph and tragedy: the Raan of Kutch and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War
Conclusion: the erosion of Anglo-American power in India and Pakistan
Select bibliography.