The Most Dangerous Place

Although the region is often regarded as peripheral to America's rise to global ascendancy the United States has long been enmeshed in South Asia. 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. Even as South Asia has undergone ...See More