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Since the late 20th century, the issue of accommodation of religious minorities within the structure of nation-states has been a subject of intense discussions among scholars and policy makers across the world. Most societies and nation-states in the world are either experiencing strains in accommodating the social, economic, and political concerns of minority communities or facing difficulties in managing majority-minority relationship. More than any other ...
The book, containing 19 scholarly papers grouped into five theme parts, broadly deals with social-political forces, ideas, discourses and events that have shaped the emergence of Arab Spring and attempts to delineate its broad meanings and contours. It examines the contentious issue of relationship between Islamism, nation-state and democracy in the context of Arab world and discusses the strengths, weaknesses, limitations and prospects of Arab Spring for ...
Indian-Iranian relations have been the subject of intense debates and discussions in recent years, particularly in the post-9/11 period. The growing Indian-US relationship is considered to have cast a shadow on Indian-Iranian ties. Given the anti-Iranian thrust in US foreign policy, particularly on the nuclear issue, India's foreign policy faces a daunting task of maintaining a balanced outlook towards Iran. It is against this background that this book ...
India’s economic interests and its self imagination as an emerging global power have assumed a higher priority in defining India’s foreign policy and security goals since early 1990s. This has guided the Indian policy makers to intensify its engagements with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other GCC countries - around which Indian foreign policy in the region revolves today in the political and economic sense of the term. This book deals with evolving ...
War, conflict and terrorism define the face of contemporary West Asia at popular level. However, there are far more other important issues and challenges that are currently troubling the governments of West Asian nations. These include (a) political, economic and social challenges, (b) Islamic militancy, (c) growing unemployment, (d) democratic reforms, (e) human rights, (f) living conditions of expatriates, and (g) urbanization. Added to this list are ...
The physical constituents and engineering properties of food crops are important for the design of machines and analysis of the behaviour of the product in their handling and processing. The information on the major chemical constituents, viz; carbohydrate, protein and far content of food crops, would be helpful in making a balance diet. Considerable research data on various engineering properties and physical as well as chemical constituents of food crops have ...
India's foreign policy posture in recent years, particularly towards the region of West Asia and North Africa (WANA), has been a subject of intense debate. India's growing relationship with the US and Israel, and its 'lukewarm stand' on Iraqi crisis and Iranian nuclear issue has been seen as a fundamental shift in the Indian foreign policy exercise. Critics have accused the succeeding Indian governments during the past one and half decades of abandoning its ...
Recent years have witnessed the intensification of international debates on Iranian nuclear programme. This book aims to further enrich the understanding on the issue of nature of Iranian nuclear programme that Iran claims to be meant for peaceful purposes, while the western powers suspect the Iranian intent and appear to be determined to block its nuclear ambition. It attempts to situate the Iranian nuclear discourse and international debates concerning the ...