Format:
1 online resource (320 pages)
ISBN:
9780195363708
Content:
Indian and American experts, reflecting different perspectives and areas of expertise, here examine the political, ethnic, and religious factors that have escalated superpower tensions in India and its nearby Islamic states.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Emerging Security Issues in the Indian Ocean: An American Perspective -- Origins of External Interest in the Indian Ocean -- Southwest Asia and American Strategy in the Indian Ocean -- Missions of the Soviet Navy in the Indian Ocean -- Expansion of Littoral Navies -- A Superpower "Rivalry"? -- 2. Emerging Security Issues in the Indian Ocean: An Indian Perspective -- The United States -- The Soviet Union -- India -- Other Powers -- Moscow, Washington, and Indian Ocean Arms Control -- 3. Emerging Economic Issues in the Indian Ocean: An American Perspective -- The 200-Mile Exclusive Economic Zone -- The Deep-Seabed Mining of Nodules -- The Antarctic Treaty -- Redesigning the "Common Heritage" Concept -- 4. Emerging Economic Issues in the Indian Ocean: An Indian Perspective -- The Future in the Oceans -- Conflict Over Ocean Resources -- Seapower, Resources, and Strategy in the Indian Ocean -- Oil, the Gulf, and U.S. Security -- The Mythology of Strategic Minerals -- Non-Living Resources in the Region -- Living Resources in the Region -- Antarctic Issues -- India's Ocean Policy and the United States -- 5. Arms Limitation in the Indian Ocean: Retrospect and Prospect -- India and the Zone of Peace -- Why the 1977-78 Negotiations Failed -- The Prospects for Indian Ocean Arms Control -- 6. India, the United States, and Superpower Rivalry in the Indian Ocean -- The Politics of Bases in the Indian Ocean -- India, the Soviet Union, and the United States -- Afghanistan: After the Soviet Withdrawal -- Avenues to Détente in the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf -- Appendix: Conclusion and Recommendations of the Indo-American Task Force on the Indian Ocean -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195054972
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195054972
Additional Edition:
Print version Superpower Rivalry in the Indian Ocean : Indian and American Perspectives
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=272762
