THE TIBET GAMBLE examines the risky bets being played on all sides of the Tibet issue--from Western businesses and the Chinese Communist regime in Beijing to non-violent Tibet activists and militant young Tibetan dissidents. W. Kesler Jackson answers many critical questions consistently avoided in discussion about Tibet today: What will happen when the Dalai Lama dies? Is there a militant side to the Tibetan freedom struggle? How much time do the Tibetan culture and language have left? Does the Western image of a peace-loving, violence-abhoring Tibetan truly mirror the reality for Tibetans today? And, most importantly, how can the Tibet problem be solved?

THE TIBET GAMBLE examines the risky bets being played on all sides of the Tibet issue--from Western businesses and the Chinese Communist regime in Beijing to non-violent Tibet activists and militant young Tibetan dissidents. Mr. Jackson answers many critical questions consistently avoided by most "Tibet experts" of today: What will happen when the Dalai Lama dies? Is there a militant side to the Tibetan freedom struggle? How much time do the Tibetan culture and language have left? Does the Western image of a peace-loving, violence-abhoring Tibetan truly mirror the reality for Tibetans today? And, most importantly, how can the Tibet problem be solved?