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INAF-354 The U.S., India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Fall only
Dramatic developments over the past few years have given a new and compelling importance to U.S. relations with much of South Asia. The Indian and Pakistan nuclear bomb test, the dangerous India-Pakistan confrontation over Kashmir, growing instability in Pakistan, the increasingly close ties between Washington and New Delhi, the new role of South Asian communities in this country as a factor in U.S. policymaking, and, most important, the rise in Afghanistan of the Taliban and its fostering of international terrorism have all contributed to the region's enhanced priority for the United States.
This course will look at American relations with these three South Asian countries and trace how they got there. Its focus will be on developments in the past decade, since the end of the Cold War provided a backdrop for the major changes in the way U.S. policymakers have dealt with the region. It will also review key factors and events since the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 that shaped U.S. policy in the area and the polices and attitudes the South Asian countries have adopted toward the United States.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Fall '09:
Shaffer, H.
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