War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir and Tibet - Softcover
In this stunning read, veteran foreign correspondent Eric Margolis presents a revelatory history of the complicated and volatile conflicts that entangle one of the most beautiful and remote parts of the world.
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Eric Margolis is Contributing Foreign Editor of the Toronto Sun newspapers and a syndicated columnist whose articles have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS News, CNN, ABC and WNET.
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Beginning with the premise that South Asia is one of the most combustible regions on the planet (a 1993 CIA study rated Kashmir as the most likely place for a nuclear war to begin), veteran foreign correspondent Margolis goes poking around the region, wondering where the spark will originate, discussing Afghanistan (especially the heavy American and Pakistani involvement in the area), the border conflicts in Kashmir and Siachen between India and Pakistan, and China's occupation of Tibet, which he sees as a model for how China might come into bloody conflict with India. The book is good on military issues and useful as a primer for the uninitiated, especially on the way that British, American and Russian policies have fueled the arms and territory battles in Afghanistan and on what India's and Pakistan's battling has cost them in lost social and economic development. But the author's fondness for generalities and potted psychologizing can be wearying: Muslim Kashmiris are "a haughty lot," Sikhs are known for their "love of revenge," the leaders of the Afghan Army suffer from a "deficit in human talent that afflicts so many backward societies." Margolis even devotes a page to the proposition that Hindu anti-Muslim sentiment is partly due to Hindus feeling sexually inferior to Muslims since Islam "encourages a robust sex life" and some Indians believe that Muslims are better lovers because they are circumcised. (Mar.)
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0415930626
- ISBN 13 9780415930628
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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WAR AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD : The Struggle for Afganistan, Kashmir and Tibet
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. First American Edition, 1st Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. A critical analysis of two decades of strife in the regions of Afganistan, Kashmir, Pakistand and Tibet --- an area, beyond strife in the Balkans and the seething Middle East, that journalist Eric Margolis (1947 -) says, "presents such a toixic stew of boiling religious, ethnic, political, strategic, and historical animosities, made all the more volatitle by endemic poverty, illiteracy and the sheer agony of daily existence." India and Pakistan with nuclear capabilties and constantly at odds led to a 1993 CiA conclusion that the Jammu/Kashmire region to be the "most likely place for a nuclear war to begin". A decade later, Iran adds fuel to the mix. Exposition in 19 chapters and 4 parts" Part I, The Great Jihad; II, Kashmire - War in Paradise; III, War in the Death Zone; and IV, The Roof of the World. Seller Inventory # 011247
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