Further reading
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BOOKS
Abbas, Hassan. Pakistan’s drift into extremism: allah, the army and America’s war on terror. New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2007.
Baruah, Sanjib. Durable disorder: understanding the politics of Northeast India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Berghahn, Volker R. Militarism: the history of an international debate 1861-1979. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
Betts, Richard K. Soldiers, statesmen, and cold war crises. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
Betts, Richard K. Enemies of intelligence: knowledge and power in American national security. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Born, Hans and Ian Leigh. Making intelligence accountable: legal standards and best practice for oversight of intelligence agencies. Oslo: House of Parliament, 2005.
Born, Hans and Maria Caparini (eds). Democratic control of intelligence services: containing rogue elephants. London: Ashgate, 2007.
Bruneau, Thomas C. and Steven C. Boraz. Reforming intelligence: obstacles to democratic control and effectiveness. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.
Callahan, Mary P. Making enemies: war and state building in Burma. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Cohen, Eliot. Supreme command: soldiers, statesmen and leadership in wartime. London: Simon and Schuster, 2003.
Cohen, Stephen. The Indian army: its contribution to the development of a nation. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Cohen, Stephen. The Pakistan army. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Cohen, Stephen. The idea of Pakistan. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004.
Coll, Steve. Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden. London: Penguin, 2005.
Craig, Gordon. Politics of the Prussian army, 1640-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Dalvi, J. P. Himalayan blunder. Bombay: Thacker & Company, 1969.
Feaver, Peter. Armed servants: agency, oversight and civil-military relations. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.
Fikelstein, David M. and Kristen Gunness. Civil-military relation’s in today’s China: swimming in a new sea. New York: East Gate, 2007.
Finer, S.E. The man on the horseback: the role of the military in politics. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1988.
GOI. Recommendations of the group of ministers. New Delhi: Government of India, 2001.
Grare, Frederic. Reforming the intelligence agencies in Pakistan’s transitional democracy. Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2009.
Guha, Ramachandra. India after Gandhi: the history of the world’s largest democracy. London: Macmillan, 2007.
Herman, Michael. Intelligence power in peace and war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Huntington, Samuel P. The soldier and the state: the theory and politics of civil-military relations. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1957.
Huntington, Samuel P. Political order in changing societies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
Jalal, Ayesha. State of martial rule: The origins of Pakistan’s political economy of defence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Jalal, Ayesha. Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: a comparative and historical perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Janowitz, Morris. The professional soldier: a social and political portrait. New York: Free Press, 1960.
Jones, Owen Bennett. Pakistan: eye of the storm. New Delhi: Viking, 2002.
Kanwal, Gurmeet. Indian army: vision 2020. New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2008.
Kundu, Apurba. Militarism in India: the army and civil society in consensus. London: I.B. Taurus, 1998.
Milam, William B. Bangladesh and Pakistan: flirting with failure in South Asia. London: Hurst, 2009.
Nan, Li. Chinese civil-military relations: the transformation of the people’s liberation army. London: Routledge, 2006.
Palit, D.K. War in high Himalaya: Indian army in crisis, 1962. London: Hurst, 1991.
Perlmutter, Amos. The military and politics in modern times: on professionals, praetorians, and revolutionary soldiers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Posen, Barry R. The sources of military doctrine: France, Britain, Germany between the world wars. Ithaca: Cornell, 1984.
Raghavan, Srinath. War and peace in modern India: a strategic history of the Nehru years. Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2010.
Rizvi, Hasan Askari. The military and politics in Pakistan, 1947-1997. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2000.
Rosen, Stephen P. Societies and military power: India and its armies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Scobell, Andrew. China’s use of military force: beyond the great wall and the long march. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Selth, Andrew. Burma’s armed forces: power without glory. Norwolk: EastBridge, 2002.
Selth, Andrew. Transforming the tatmadaw. Canberra: Australian National University, 1996.
Shaikh, Farzana. Making sense of Pakistan. London: Hurst, 2009.
Shambaugh, David. Modernizing China’s military: progress, problems and prospects. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Shulsky, Abram and Gary Schmitt. Silent warfare: understanding the world of intelligence. Washington D.C.: Brassey’s Inc, 2002, (3rd ed.).
Siddiqa, Ayesha. Military Inc.: inside Pakistan’s military economy. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
Strachan, Hew. The politics of the British army. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
Swaine, Michael. The role of the Chinese military in national security policymaking. Rand Corporation: 1996.
Taylor, Brian D. Politics and the Russian army: civil-military relations, 1689-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Thant, Myint-U. The river of lost footsteps: histories of Burma. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Taylor, Robert H. The state in Myanmar. London: Hurst, 2009.
US Senate. Alleged assassination plots involving foreign leaders: an interim report of the select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975.
Wittes, Benjamin. Law and the long war: the future of justice in an age of terror. New York: Penguin, 2008.
ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS
Callahan, Mary. Burma: soldiers as state builders, in Muthiah Alagappa (ed.), Coercion and governance: the declining political role of the military in Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Chari, P. R. Civil-military relations in India. ‘Armed Forces and Society’ 14(1): 1977.
Chengappa, Bidanda. The ISI’s role in Pakistan’s politics. ‘Strategic Analysis’ 23(11): 2000.
Hastedt, Glenn P. Constitutional control of intelligence. ‘Intelligence and National Security’ 1(2): 1986.
Laswell, Harold D. The garrison state and specialists on violence. ‘American Journal of Sociology’ 47: 1941.
Lin, Joseph. The changing face of Chinese military generals: evolving practices between 1981 and 2009. Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, Tamkang University (South Korea), 26 March 2010.
Min, Win. Civil-military relations in Burma. Paper presented at the Public Forum Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Stress: Lessons from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Myanmar/Burma, 1 September 2009, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
Mulvenon, James. Rogue warriors? a puzzled look at the Chinese ASAT test. ‘China Leadership Monitor’ 20, Hoover Institution: Winter 2007.
Pant, Harsh V. India’s nuclear doctrine and command structure: implications for civil-military relations in India. ‘Armed Forces and Society’ 33(2): 2007.
Raghavan, Srinath
. Civil-military relations in India: the China crisis and after. ‘Journal of Strategic Studies’ 32(1): 2009.Sanitwong, Kusuma. Changing civil-military relations in Thailand and the region. Keynote speech at shaping civil-military relations in Burma: learning lessons from ASEAN. 5-6 August 2002, Bangkok.
Scobell, Andrew. Is there a gap in China’s peaceful rise? ‘Parameters’ 2009.
Scobell, Andrew. China’s evolving civil-military relations: creeping guojiahua. ‘Armed Forces and Society’ 31: 2005.
Shambaugh, David. Civil-military relations in China: party-army or national military. ‘Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies’ 16: 2002.
Staniland, Paul. Explaining civil-military relations in complex political environments: India and Pakistan in comparative perspective. ‘Security Studies’ 17(2): 2008.
Zhongwei, Song. The structural influence of the military in China’s foreign policy-making. ‘Asian Studies Review’ 24(1): 2000.
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