After the freeze

Great Powers and South Asia: Post-Cold War Trends

by Maqbool A. Bhatty

Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, 1996

247 pages

One of the significant factors about the end of the Cold War has been that the United States is increasingly replacing military force with non-military persuasion, or the threat of it, to make other nations comply with its own stance. Equally significant is its emphasis in preventing any potential conflict rather than in finding long-term peaceful solutions.