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Ch. 1. Fortune, Fantasy and Faith -- Ch. 2. Under American Eyes -- Ch. 3. Fighting for Freedom -- Ch. 4. Between East and West Asia -- Ch. 5. Allies and Aid -- Ch. 6. New Frontier in South Asia -- Ch. 7. The Dangerous Decade -- Ch. 8. Sowing in the Wind -- Ch. 9. In the Unipolar World -- Ch. 10. The New Century.

"South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America's engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts-secular and religious-to remake the world in its image"--

Prologue: The chronicle of a birth foretold? -- The turning point -- Breakdown -- The neighbor -- The grand strategists -- Russian roulette -- Poster child and pariah -- Power and principle -- The Chinese cracker -- Escalation -- Strange victory -- Epilogue: Garden of forked paths

"A highly researched account of security strategy in the early years of Indian independence, this book analyses conflicts pertaining to princely states and their integration within India, and to disputes with other nations, namely, Pakistan and China."--Provided by publisher

We live in an era of unparalleled access to information and communication technologies. The Internet and other information tools like the television are becoming ever more central to our lives-we chat, blog, e-mail and e-shop, leaving behind our footprints in this version of public space. In addition, we are constantly bombarded with different kinds of information that seek to mould our thinking in subtle ways. The reader of this book will discover that social information networks possess qualities that are counter-intuitive. Social information networks form what are called frictionless, nonli

In the 75th year of its independence from colonial rule, India confronts grave challenges to its economic and social development and to its democracy. Civil society in India has led the achievement of development goals and civil and political rights since the Gandhian movement of the early 20th century. Presently, however, it finds itself confronting a confluence of crises. The marginalisation of civil society actors by a private sector empowered by economic liberalisation, on the one hand, and majoritarian, populist political forces has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic of the past 2 years. This working paper builds on a lecture delivered on November 26, 2021, at the London School of Economics Department of International Development as part of the #CuttingEdge series. It traces the origins and growing strengths of the forces ranged against civil society and points toward the actions necessary to confront them.

Sandy Gordon, India's Rise as an Asian Power: Nation, Neighborhood, and Region. New Delhi: Foundation Books/Cambridge University Press. 2015. 296 pages. ₹650.

U.S. government and businesses spent approximately $81 billion on canceled software projects, and another $59 billion for budget overruns. Their survey claimed that in the United States, only about one-sixth of all projects were completed on time and within budget, nearly one third of a projects were canceled outright, and well over half were considered "challenged." Of the challenged or canceled projects, the average project was 189 percent over budget, 222 percent behind schedule, and contained only 61 percent of the originally specified features.[1] One reason for the varied conclusions is that most failed projects are never studied—even by the organization that experienced the failure. A failure is defined as any software project with severe cost or schedule overruns, quality problems, or that suffers outright cancellation. Some of the important points that are to be considered to avoid waste in software Engineering are discussed in this paper.