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Asian Security Issues

Edited by Lawrence Ziring and David G. Dickason
Reviewed by By Patricia Lee Dorff
Spring 1989
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Edited by Lawrence Ziring and David G. Dickason
Institute of Government & Politics, Western Michigan University
1988
200 pp.

This is an uneven collection, but one solid contribution is by a Pakistani political scientist, Syed Rifaat Hussain, who provides a good history of Soviet-U.S. and Chinese-Indian rivalry in South Asia, and concludes that the superpower competition is the decisive strategic relationship influencing the region.

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