India, Pakistan and the United States: Breaking With the Past

From: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | Date: November 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

India, Pakistan and the United States: Breaking With the Past

Questioning the wisdom of a "hands-off" U.S. policy toward South Asia in the postCold War period, Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli, in her new book published by the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations, argues for an enhanced U.S. role in the "management of regional tensions" between India and Pakistan. Making a case for sustained U.S. involvement in a South Asian "peace process," she recommends that the "United States must break with its practice of concentrating on South Asian issues such as those caused by regional wars, Soviet occupation, or ...

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