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South Asia Reading List
Terrorism/Security Related
Hassan Abbas, The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014). Valid Brown & Don Rassler, Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Abu baker Siddique, The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Afghanistan and Pakistan, (London: C. Hurst and Co., 2014).
Stephen Tankel, Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba, (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2011).
India/Pakistan Conflict
Stephen Cohen, Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum, (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2013).
Bruce Riedel, Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back, (Washington: Brookings Institution, 2013)
C.Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Nuclear Issues
Mark Fitzpatrick, Overcoming Pakistan's Nuclear Dangers, (London: International Institute of Strategic Studies: 2014).
Dinshaw Mistry, The US-India Nuclear Agreement: Diplomacy and Domestic Politics, (India: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
U.S Foreign Policy
Husain Haqqani, Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding(New York: Public Affairs, 2013).
Mark Mazzetti, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, (New York: Penguin Group, 2013).
Bruce Riedel, What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979-89, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2014).
Daniel Markey, No Exit from Pakistan: America's Tortured Relationship with Islamabad, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Hassan Abbas, The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014). Valid Brown & Don Rassler, Fountainhead of Jihad: The Haqqani Nexus, 1973-2012, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Abu baker Siddique, The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Afghanistan and Pakistan, (London: C. Hurst and Co., 2014).
Stephen Tankel, Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba, (London: C. Hurst & Co., 2011).
India/Pakistan Conflict
Stephen Cohen, Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum, (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2013).
Bruce Riedel, Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back, (Washington: Brookings Institution, 2013)
C.Christine Fair, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Nuclear Issues
Mark Fitzpatrick, Overcoming Pakistan's Nuclear Dangers, (London: International Institute of Strategic Studies: 2014).
Dinshaw Mistry, The US-India Nuclear Agreement: Diplomacy and Domestic Politics, (India: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
U.S Foreign Policy
Husain Haqqani, Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding(New York: Public Affairs, 2013).
Mark Mazzetti, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth, (New York: Penguin Group, 2013).
Bruce Riedel, What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979-89, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2014).
Daniel Markey, No Exit from Pakistan: America's Tortured Relationship with Islamabad, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).