Cold War in the High Himalayas

The USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s

By S Mahmud Ali, S. Mahmud Ali

This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s. The book highlights the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts and the...

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1169-7 (Routledge)

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China's Economic Security

By Robert Ash, Werner Draguhn

After the end of the cold war, economic security has become the most important issue to guarantee a peaceful world, and especially the Asian crisis...

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1167-3 (Routledge)

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State, Society and the Environment in South Asia

By Stig Toft Madsen

Contemporary thinking favours local participation and local stake-holding under a decentralized, democratic framework as the just and efficient solution to contemporary South Asian environmental dilemmas...

1999 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0614-3 (Routledge)

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Storm Over the Caucasus

In the Wake of Independence

By Charles van der Leeuw

This book uses eyewitness accounts and historical records to provide a picture of the turbulent years immediately following perestroika and the independence of the Caucasian...

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1116-1 (Routledge)

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Sustainable Development in Central Asia

By Shirin Akiner, Jon Hay, Sander Tideman

This book is the result of a pioneering conference held in Ulaan Baatar in September 1994. The first Conference on the Sustainable Development of Central...

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0419-4 (Routledge)

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Tajikistan

The Trials of Independence

By Shirin Akiner, Mohammad-Reza Djalili, Frederic Grare

Since its independence in 1991 Tajikistan has suffered a painful series of political crises followed by a civil war, still continuing, whose repercussions extend far...

1998 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0420-0 (Routledge)

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Qaidu and the Rise of the Independent Mongol State In Central Asia

By Michal Biran

Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of Ogedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen...

1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0631-0 (Routledge)

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State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan

The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826-1863)

By Christine Noelle

With the exception of two short periods of direct British intervention during the Anglo-Afghan Wars of 1839-42 and 1878-80, the history of nineteenth-century Afghanistan has...

1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-0629-7 (Routledge)

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Uzbekistan on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century

Tradition and Survival

By Islam Karimov

This new study by its president of Uzbekistan's special opportunities and challenges as it faces the 21st century will be of interest to strategists, politicians...

1997 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1045-4 (Routledge)

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The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle

Building the Foundations of Japanese Science and Technology 1945-52

By Bowen C. Dees

There is virtually nothing - until the arrival of this study - addressing the significance of the enormous contributions in science and technology towards the...

1997 | Hardback: 978-1-873410-67-7 (Routledge)

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