Enchanted Frontiers: Sikkim, Bhutan and India’s North-Eastern Borderlands by Nari Rustomji presents the author’s personal experiences and observations of the Eastern Himalayan region, focusing on Sikkim, Bhutan, and India’s northeastern borderlands. Through a blend of historical and ethnographic narrative, Rustomji explores the lives of local communities, their cultures, traditions, and t…
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia examines the political decisions and covert military strategies carried out by the Nixon administration and Henry Kissinger during the Vietnam War, with a focus on their impact on Cambodia. The book reveals how secret bombings, military interventions, and diplomatic maneuvers contributed to the destabilization of Cambodia, ultimately pa…
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia examines the political decisions and covert military strategies carried out by the Nixon administration and Henry Kissinger during the Vietnam War, with a focus on their impact on Cambodia. The book reveals how secret bombings, military interventions, and diplomatic maneuvers contributed to the destabilization of Cambodia, ultimately pa…
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The tribal region located on the frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the centre of terrorist activity in the world today. Since 2001, Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters have regrouped here, using its mountainous terrain as a safe haven in which to train, plan major terror attacks, send insurgents to Afghanistan, and recruit ever-younger fighters. In this essential book Imtiaz Gul follows th…
The recent border clashes between China and India have dramatized the strategic location of the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan: their position on the fringe of the Communist empire, between India and Chinese-occupied Tibet make them important geostrategically to both the East and West. This is the irst book to evaluate the complex politico-geographical aspects of these three Hi…
Since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, the Bush administration has celebrated the imminent demise of the Taliban, with claims of a moral and psychological defeat" playing a prominent role in the presidential elections of 2004. Some commentators suggested that "reconstruction and development" had won over the Afghan population, despite widespread criticism of the meager distribution o…
Presents a carefully researched analysis of the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the early years of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-89). This book presents a fresh interpretation based on the earliest primary sources - interviews with the Khmer people themselves.
This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive experience, but few countries have paid as high a cost to retain traditionally accepted relationships of authority as has Afghanistan since the communist coup
Since 9/11, the Taliban have dominated headlines around the world. The Taliban government, allied to Osama Bin Laden, collapsed dramatically following the Anglo-American invasion of 2001. Since then however the movement has showed an unexpected ability to evolve, and has drawn the world's only superpower into a protracted and seemingly unwinnable conflict in this strategically vital country. No…