This book makes an objective assessment of Genesis and fall out of U.S.-U.K. military operations in Iraq beginning in the third week of March, 2003 with a multi dimensional approach. It underlines how this development marks the beginning of a new trend in American foreign policy, which not only unfolds serious consequences of unipolarism put also undermines the authority and role of the United Nations. However, that is half-truth. Almost simultaneously unipolarism has begun to be challenged by some of developed nations, France, Germany and Russia. There is something more to it. the worldwide movement and condemnation of American military operations in Iraq have begun to act as a brake on unipolarism. Above all, the United States has alienated itself from the entire Arab world some of the pro-American Arab regimes have begun to chalk out and alternative to their exclusive relationship with the United States. Saudhi Arabia’s new foreign policy trends confirm this. This implies that in the beginning of the present century to parallel developments are taking place. This book seeks to analyse these development. That is why this book merits attention of both the researchers of international affairs and policy makers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR V D Chopra
V.D. Chopra began his innings, as Head of Economics Department in D.A.V. College in Rawalpindi. He was a political activist and a freedom fighter. In 1939, he was sentenced to 18 months, imprisonment for pulling down the Union Jack. In 1941, he was detained in the notorious Lahore Fort. He was again arrested under Defence of India Rules in 1942-43. The allegation against him was that he was organizing subversive activities in the armed services. He presented academic papers in various international seminars such as in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and erstwhile Soviet Union. He worked for Link weekly and Patriot daily for three decades in various capacities and rose to become the chief editor. He covered Arab-Israel war from Cairo and Indo-Pak conflicts in 1965 and 1971. He has been awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Peace Prize for his book India and the Socialist World in 1984. At present, he is Vice-President of the International Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies, New Delhi. He has authored and edited a large number of books during the last 20 years. The books relevant to the present volume include Agony of Punjab (1984), Studies in Indo-Pak Relations (1984), India’s Unity and Security Challenges (1984), South Asia in Transition: Conflicts and Tensions (1986), Religious Fundamentalism in Asia (1994), Genesis of Regional Conflicts (1995), Afghanistan and Asian Stability (1998), and Rise of Terrorism and Secessionism in Eurasia (2001).
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