Open AccessDennis Kux. Estranged Democracies: India and the United States 1941-1991. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 1993. Hardbound. Indian Rupees 375.00.
Author(s) -
Khwaja Sarmad
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v33i2pp.200-201
Subject(s) - alliance , political science , indian subcontinent , soviet union , expansionism , ideology , cold war , economic history , new delhi , foreign policy , element (criminal law) , political economy , development economics , law , sociology , history , ancient history , politics , economics , metropolitan area , archaeology
Cold war US-Soviet relations were characterised by a large gapbetween hostile talk and cautious action, though both countries backedand armed rival sides in wars in the third world. During the cold war USforeign policy was detennined by the sole objective of containing Sovietterritorial and ideological 'expansionism'. This was also the definingelement in US-Indian subcontinent relations in the coldwar period. Thusthe main reason for the estrangement in US-India relations is not hardto discern-while the US aggressively sought partners in its anti-Sovietalliance system, India nurtured its economic and military suppliesrelationship with the Soviet Union. Furthermore, while there persisted afundamental conflict between Pakistan and India over the Kashmir issue,Pakistan participated in the US sponsored anti-Soviet alliance systemand gained from US military and economic assistance.