Asia
December 1999
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Title: Toward a Comprehensive Settlement of the Korea Problem
Author: Bruce Cumings
"The ongoing humanitarian emergency and the needs of the North Korean economy provide a major opportunity to transform the security stalemate on the Korean peninsula, to bring North Korea into the world economy, and then watch that system contain and ultimately transform Pyongyang's insurgent and recalcitrant posture."
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Title: Pakistan's Coup: Planting the Seeds of Democracy?
Author: Ahmed Rashid
"With the overthrow of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government in October, “the army, contrary to anything it has ever done in the past, will have to institutionalize checks and balances to allow a vibrant democracy and civil society to flourish. In short, the army has to sow the seeds for true democracy."
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Title: Asia's Militaries and the New Nuclear Age
Author: Paul Bracken
"The mass politicization of military competition is a primary source of instability and danger in Asia. . . . Imaginary missile gaps, created and exaggerated in the Asian mass media, resonate among nations with ancient histories of mutual hatred and long-standing feelings of inferiority. The frenzied response in the United States over missile and bomber ‘gaps' in the cold war would seem tame compared to some possible missile hysteria in Asia."
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Title: India's Vision–and the BJP's
Author: David Stuligross
The Bharatiya Janata Party's "social vision in its purest form is extraordinarily broad, encompassing virtually all aspects of Indian society; it is a nationalist party, not a sectarian one. . . . Nevertheless, fears linger. Competition between bjp leaders–whose top priority is a social agenda–and those who put economic development first continues to tear at the party."
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Title: Sri Lanka's Civil War
Author: Manik de Silva
"The major obstacle to any settlement of the conflict is the Liberation Tigers' demand for a separate state. Although the guerrillas have repeatedly indicated they are open to negotiation on this question, past experience has made Colombo wary. But given the war weariness of the Sri Lankan people, conditions are conducive for peacemaking, although formidable obstacles exist."
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Title: Is the Asian Financial Crisis Over?
Author: Jonathan Lemco and Scott B. MacDonald
Although a number of arguments have been advanced to explain Asia's turnaround, they "do not take into account another, deeper cause for Asia's recovery—one that also leads us to recommend caution about the extent of that recovery."
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Title: Book Reviews: The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State. By Itty Abraham
Reviewer: Sumit Ganguly
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Title: Book Reviews: India's Nuclear Deterrent: Pokhran II and Beyond. Edited by Amitabh Mattoo
Reviewer: Sumit Ganguly
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Title: Book Reviews: India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation. By George Perkovich
Reviewer: Sumit Ganguly
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Title: Book Reviews: Nuclear India. Edited by Jasjit Singh
Reviewer: Sumit Ganguly
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Title: The Month in Review: October 1999
An international chronology of events in October, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Asia
A map of Asia.
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