Fierce enigmas

By Srinath Raghavan

Subjects: American Military assistance, World, International Relations, Foreign relations, American Humanitarian assistance, Diplomatic relations, HISTORY, 19th Century, South asia, foreign relations, India & South Asia, Geopolitics, Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE, United states, foreign relations, asia, Southeast Asia, 20th Century, American Economic assistance, History, 21st Century

Description: "South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America's engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts-secular and religious-to remake the world in its image"--