Teresita C Schaffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5994140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresita C Schaffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresita C |
| FAMILY NAME | Schaffer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHAFFER T C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
South Asia
South Asia
South Asia
Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. £100.00/$120.00. 288 pp
South Asia
The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook IndiaDebashish Mukerji. Noida: Harper Collins India, 2021. ₹699.00. 584 pp.The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided NationDeclan Walsh. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. £9.99. 368 pp.India Before Modi: How the BJP Came to PowerVinay Sitapati. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2021. £20.00. 400 pp.Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic DemocracyChristophe Jaffrelot. Cynthia Schoch, trans…
South Asia
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, PresentShivshankar Menon. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. $39.99. 416 pp.Pakistan’s Political Parties: Surviving Between Dictatorship and DemocracyMariam Mufti, Sahar Shafqat and Niloufer Siddiqui, eds. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021. £37.50/$49.95. 336 pp.The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in PakistanOwen Bennett-Jones. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. …
South Asia
Pakistan: A Kaleidoscope of IslamMariam Abou Zahab. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2020. £20.00. 256 pp.Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth YearsMontek Singh Ahluwalia. New Delhi: Rupa, 2020. ₹595.00. 464 pp.Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.–India Relations During the Cold WarTanvi Madan. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. $35.99. 380 pp
South Asia
Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the StateMadiha Afzal. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2018. $36.99. 192 pp.Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South AsiaSrinath Raghavan. New York: Basic Books, 2018. £30.00/$40.00. 486 pp.Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning PointGyan Prakash. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. £24.00/$29.95. 439 pp.Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How …
South Asia
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and PakistanSteve Coll. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. $35.00. 784 pp.The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded AgeJames Crabtree. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2018. $28.00. 416 pp.The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of PeaceA.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani and Aditya Sinha. Noida: HarperCollins India, 2018. £24.50/₹799.00. 344 pp.The People Next Door: The Curious…
Neighbourhood Watch
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeresita C. SchafferTeresita C. Schaffer is Director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, and is a retired US Ambassador with long service in the region
New Delhi's New Outlook
The end of the Cold War and the rapid acceleration of India’s economic growth starting in the early 1990s transformed India’s foreign policy. The country’s view of its own interests and of the world became more realistic (in the way that foreign-policy theorists use the term), more economically based, and less tethered to its immediate neighbourhood. Raja Mohan’s Crossing the Rubicon, published in 2003, is the classic exposition of this policy. A…
The United States, India, and Global Governance
Pakistan
As the year 2007 started, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf seemed secure, his trademark confidence in place, enjoying widespread if grudging popularity.The country faced presidential and parliamentary elections.Many hoped these might start a gradual transition to democracy, but no one expected major short-term change.By year's end, Musharraf, now deeply unpopular, had retired from the army, and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, with whom…
U.S. influence on Pakistan
For more than fifty years, the United States and Pakistan have had overlapping interests but differing priorities, resulting in a pattern of disillusionment. To avoid repeating history, Washington should depersonalize its policy and reconsider its priorities
Building a new partnership with India
U.S. attention toward New Delhi, before and after September 11, is increasing at the same time as four major transformations change India. The future of the relationship is not an alliance, but a selective partnership based on specific, common goals
India
Elections are determining the future of several key countries in core regions of the world. Our panel of experts assesses the prospects for these countries based on their upcoming or recent poll results
The United States, India, and Global Governance
Building a new partnership with India
U.S. attention toward New Delhi, before and after September 11, is increasing at the same time as four major transformations change India. The future of the relationship is not an alliance, but a selective partnership based on specific, common goals
U.S. influence on Pakistan
For more than fifty years, the United States and Pakistan have had overlapping interests but differing priorities, resulting in a pattern of disillusionment. To avoid repeating history, Washington should depersonalize its policy and reconsider its priorities
India
Elections are determining the future of several key countries in core regions of the world. Our panel of experts assesses the prospects for these countries based on their upcoming or recent poll results
U.S. influence on Pakistan
For more than fifty years, the United States and Pakistan have had overlapping interests but differing priorities, resulting in a pattern of disillusionment. To avoid repeating history, Washington should depersonalize its policy and reconsider its priorities
Building a new partnership with India
U.S. attention toward New Delhi, before and after September 11, is increasing at the same time as four major transformations change India. The future of the relationship is not an alliance, but a selective partnership based on specific, common goals
Pakistan
As the year 2007 started, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf seemed secure, his trademark confidence in place, enjoying widespread if grudging popularity.The country faced presidential and parliamentary elections.Many hoped these might start a gradual transition to democracy, but no one expected major short-term change.By year's end, Musharraf, now deeply unpopular, had retired from the army, and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, with whom…
The United States, India, and Global Governance
Neighbourhood Watch
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTeresita C. SchafferTeresita C. Schaffer is Director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, and is a retired US Ambassador with long service in the region
New Delhi's New Outlook
The end of the Cold War and the rapid acceleration of India’s economic growth starting in the early 1990s transformed India’s foreign policy. The country’s view of its own interests and of the world became more realistic (in the way that foreign-policy theorists use the term), more economically based, and less tethered to its immediate neighbourhood. Raja Mohan’s Crossing the Rubicon, published in 2003, is the classic exposition of this policy. A…
South Asia
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and PakistanSteve Coll. New York: Penguin Press, 2018. $35.00. 784 pp.The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded AgeJames Crabtree. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2018. $28.00. 416 pp.The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of PeaceA.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani and Aditya Sinha. Noida: HarperCollins India, 2018. £24.50/₹799.00. 344 pp.The People Next Door: The Curious…
South Asia
Pakistan Under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the StateMadiha Afzal. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2018. $36.99. 192 pp.Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South AsiaSrinath Raghavan. New York: Basic Books, 2018. £30.00/$40.00. 486 pp.Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning PointGyan Prakash. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. £24.00/$29.95. 439 pp.Messengers of Hindu Nationalism: How …
South Asia
Pakistan: A Kaleidoscope of IslamMariam Abou Zahab. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2020. £20.00. 256 pp.Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth YearsMontek Singh Ahluwalia. New Delhi: Rupa, 2020. ₹595.00. 464 pp.Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped U.S.–India Relations During the Cold WarTanvi Madan. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. $35.99. 380 pp
South Asia
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, PresentShivshankar Menon. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2021. $39.99. 416 pp.Pakistan’s Political Parties: Surviving Between Dictatorship and DemocracyMariam Mufti, Sahar Shafqat and Niloufer Siddiqui, eds. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021. £37.50/$49.95. 336 pp.The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in PakistanOwen Bennett-Jones. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020. …
South Asia
The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook IndiaDebashish Mukerji. Noida: Harper Collins India, 2021. ₹699.00. 584 pp.The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided NationDeclan Walsh. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. £9.99. 368 pp.India Before Modi: How the BJP Came to PowerVinay Sitapati. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2021. £20.00. 400 pp.Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic DemocracyChristophe Jaffrelot. Cynthia Schoch, trans…
South Asia
Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. £100.00/$120.00. 288 pp
South Asia
South Asia
Political science (14 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic history (6 works) · History (6 works) · History (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works)