Stephen P. Cohen
Encyclopedia
Stephen P. Cohen is an American political scientist. He is an expert on Pakistan
, India
, and South Asia
n security. He is a senior fellow in foreign policy
studies at the Brookings Institution
and an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
.
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, and South Asia
South Asia
South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...
n security. He is a senior fellow in foreign policy
Foreign policy
A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...
studies at the Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...
and an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
.
Books
- The Idea of Pakistan (2004)
- The Compound Crisis of 1990: Perception, Politics and Insecurity (2003)
- India: Emerging Power (2001)
- The Pakistan Army (second revised edition, 1998; Chinese edition, 1998; Urdu edition, 2001)
- The Indian Army: Its Contribution to the Development of a Nation (second revised paperback edition, 2001)
- Arming Without Aiming: India's Military Modernization (2010)
Education
- B.A., University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
- M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison