Title Engaging India : diplomacy, democracy, and the bomb / Strobe Talbott

Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages) Contents The lost half century -- The desert rises -- The mountain turns white -- Jaswant's village -- Stuck on the tarmac -- Soft stonewalling -- The avatar of evil -- From Kargil to Blair House -- Sisyphus at India House -- A guest in the parliament -- Unfinished business Summary On May 11, 1998, three nuclear devices detonated under the Thar Desert in India shook the surrounding villages and the rest of the world. The immediate effect was to plunge U.S.-India relations, already vexed by decades of tension and estrangement, into a new crisis. The situation deteriorated further when Pakistan responded in kind two weeks later, testing a nuclear weapon for the first time. Engaging India is the firsthand story of the diplomacy conducted between the United States and the two South Asian neighbors after the nuclear tests. In this book, the American point man for the dialogue takes us behind the scenes of one of the most suspenseful and consequential diplomatic dramas of our time, reconstructing what happened and why with narrative verve, rich human detail, and penetrating analysis. From June 1998 to September 2000, in what was the most extensive dialogue ever between the United States and India, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Indian Minister of External Affairs Jaswant Singh met fourteen times in seven countries on three continents. They discussed both the immediate items on the security and nonproliferation agenda, as well as their wider visions for the U.S.-India relationship and the potential for economic and strategic cooperation between the two countries. As the relationship improved over the course of the talks, the United States was to able play a role in averting the possibility of nuclear war over the contested territory of Kashmir in the summer of 1999 the specifics of which are included for the first time in this book, told in way only a protagonist can. The Talbott-Singh diplomacy laid the groundwork for the transformational visit of President Bill Clinton to India in March 2000 and helped end fifty years of estrangement between the world's two largest democracies. As pursuit of Islamic militants Continues across South Asia, the increased cooperation established by Talbott and Singh will be an invaluable Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Talbott, Strobe. SUBJECT Talbott, Strobe fast Subject Atomic bomb -- India Atomic bomb -- Pakistan -- Pāṭa POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Arms Control. Atomic bomb Diplomatic relations Military policy Atommacht Außenpolitik Kernwaffe Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Kernwapens. Diplomatieke betrekkingen. SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- India India -- Foreign relations -- United States United States -- Foreign relations -- Pakistan -- Pāṭa Pakistan -- Foreign relations -- United States India -- Military policy Pakistan -- Military policy Subject India Pakistan United States Indien Pakistan USA Form Electronic book LC no. 2004012803 ISBN 0815797591 9780815797593

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