This book is not just an update to studies of Middle Eastern policy and diplomacy, but an in-depth analysis that covers the United States' foreign and strategic policy from the days of President Roosevelt to President Obama and Pakistan's security and strategic planning since its inception to 2011, under the shadow of India and Afghanistan.
Author Biography:
Nirode Mohanty has taught and consulted on terrorism, surveillance; secure, satellite, and survival communications; GPS navigation, network architecture, nuclear scintillation and signal processing over forty years. He has taught communications systems, information theory, coding, computer networks, satellite communications, sensor fusion, anti-jam communications, wireless technology, radar, and signal processing at State University of New York, Buffalo, the University of California, Riverside, and California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Mohanty has directed research at various aerospace companies as a senior scientist, manager, and vice president and as a consultant. He has received the Excellence in Creativity Award from Rockwell International and various commendations. For his contribution to secure and survival communications systems, he has been elected an IEEE Fellow and is serving as an Associate Editor of the International Journal on Telecommunication and Networking. He has published four books on communications and signal processing, Space Communication and Nuclear Scintillations (Springer, 1990), and Radicalism in Islam: Resurgence and Ramifications (University Press of America, 2011). He has received an M.S., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
