1st Edition

The Afghan Syndrome How to Live with Soviet Power

By Bhabani Sen Gupta Copyright 1982
    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Afghan Syndrome (1982) analyses and interprets the 1979 Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan and also examines its effects on America, China, India, Pakistan and other Islamic nations. It argues that one of the results was the rise of other centres of economic, political and military power outside the superpower spheres.

    1. The Intervention  2. Afghanistan: Friend or Victim?  3. The Theory of Linkage  4. The USSR: Emergent Global Power  5. Moscow: Diplomacy of Intervention  6. India: Diplomacy of ‘Crisis Defusion’  7. Pakistan: Diplomacy of Survival  8. China: Diplomacy of Insecurity  9. Towards Denouement  10. Asian Perceptions of Soviet Power  11. How to Live with Soviet Power

    Biography

    Bhabani Sen Gupta