The South Asia Papers: A Critical Anthology of Writings by Stephen Philip Cohen

Covering the years 1962 to 2011, this volume includes the most provocative and important writings from Stephen Cohen's fifty-year career of observing South Asia-as a professor, as a government official, and, since 1998, as a scholar at the Brookings Institution. Several pieces have never been published in book form.

The author begins with a critical look at his past writing-where he was right, and where he was wrong-followed by original essays on the region's military history, the transition...