India and disarmament

Provides an analytical study of India’s disarmament policy and its role in global efforts to reduce and eliminate weapons of mass destruction. The book examines India’s historical commitment to universal disarmament, its diplomatic initiatives, and its proposals at international fora. It also discusses the constraints India faces — including national security considerations, geopolitical …

Refugees and regional security in South Asia

Regional relations in South Asia have always been afflicted by the movements of people across territorial boundaries of the states. Rapidly growing dimensions of refugee flows during the past decades have seriously affected security and stability of both the refugee generating as well as receiving states. This is one of the first studies of how refugee flows have vitiated security environment i…

India in a turbulent world: Perspective in foreign and security policies

Edisi

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ISBN/ISSN

81-7003-265-2

Deskripsi Fisik

xiv,321 Halaman : index ;21 cm

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

327.54 Pat i

Foreign policy of India and her neighbours

This study of perceptions, interests and strategies of South Asian states reveals the analytical and empirical richness of three kinds of states in the region: India - the regional hegemon; Pakistan-India's permanent competitor; and other South Asian states who do not accept Pakistani perceptions, interests and strategies concerning India. This book assesses the diplomatic and strategic princip…

China's footprints in Southeast Asia

This is the first book to survey China growing role in Southeast Asia along multiple dimensions. It looks closely and skeptically at the multitude of ways that China has built connections in the region, including through trade, foreign aid, and cultural diplomacy. It incorporates examples such as the operation of Confucius Institutes in Indonesia or the promotion of the concept of guangxi. Chin…

Internal and external dynamics of South Asian security

Papers read at a workshop on Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security held on December 8, 1996 in Karachi

Democracy and empowerment in South Asia: Paper and proceeding of the fourth S…

outcome of the Fourth South Asia Dialogue that took place an November 1994 among the various scholars who gathered in Kathmandu, this book presents the papers and findings of the deliberations that took place then. The issues covered were confidence building, secu- larism, democratization, elec- toral reform, decentralization of power, human rights, and endogenization of the economic policymaki…

Problems of governance in South Asia

Our main purpose is to encourage a focussed debate and discussion on such issues so that the peoples of South Asia as well as the policy community put them high on their agenda. That step by itself could provide hope for the Individual citizen in South Asia whose quality of life evokes a sense of despair in the region

South Asian drama: Travails of misgovernance

Misgovernance is the fundamental problem of South Asia. Time and time again the people of this region have seen a new dawn break only to be disappointed long before breakfast. Independence itself, the overthrow of military dictators like Ayub Khan, Zia-ul-Haq, and General Ershad, the end of Indira Gandhi's Emergency, the curtailing of monarchical power in Nepal, how many more times will democra…

The Rohingya in South Asia : People without a state

This book looks at the Rohingya in the South Asian region, primarily India and Bangladesh. It explores the broader picture of the historical and political dimensions of the Rohingya crisis, and examines subjects of statelessness, human rights and humanitarian protection of these victims of forced migration. Further, it chronicles the actual process of emergence of a stateless community, the tra…