Intractable Animosity
D. Suba Chandran
SHOOTING FOR A CENTURY: THE INDIA-PAKISTAN CONUNDRUM by Stephen P. Cohen Brookings Institution Press, 2013, 237 pp., price not stated
October 2013, volume 37, No 10

Professor Cohen’s writings on the India and Pakistan have always elicited great debate in both the countries since his first work on the subject. Though an outsider, along with scholars with India and Pakistan, he has authored some of the most outstanding accounts of the multiple conflicts between the two countries. This book—Shooting for a Century should be read along with his earlier works, to appreciate the basic arguments, explanations and the future projections.

This book is neatly divided into seven essays—focussing on the context, conflicts, an account of positions of India and Pakistan, set of explanations as reasons for the conflicts, prospects of them getting resolved, and finally a critique of American strategies and interests vis-à-vis India and Pakistan.

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