China and India: Prospects for Peace

by Jonathan Holslag

For all their spectacular growth, China and India must still lift a hundred million citizens out of poverty and create jobs for the numerous laborers. Both powers hope trade and investment will sustain national unity. For the first time, Jonathan Holslag identifies these objectives as new sources of rivalry and argues that China and India cannot grow without fierce contest.

Though he recognizes that both countries wish to maintain stable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231150423
• ISBN13: 9780231150422
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher