To the north an extended civil war in Afghanistan fueled by arms from Russia and the US. To the west a fundamentalist Islamic region in Iran with links to international terrorism. To the northeast a s
Four Crises and a Peace Process focuses on four contained conflicts on the subcontinent since 1971: the "Brasstacks" Crisis of 1986-87, the Compound Crisis of 1990, the Kargil Conflict of 1999, and t
India and Pakistan, nuclear neighbors and rivals, fought the last of three major wars in 1971. Far from peaceful, however, the period since then has been "one long crisis, punctuated by periods of pea
