D. Gopal
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In recent years, issues pertaining to cultural diversity and ethnic identity have become important sites of academic concern and intense policy debate. However, current discourses purported to devise appropriate policy measures of the co-existence of plurality of ethnic and cultural diversities are yet to result in concerted action. Towards building a consensus on the vital importance of cultural diversity, the volume offers illuminating commentaries and incisive ...
In recent years, issues pertaining to cultural diversity and ethnic identity have become important sites of academic concern and intense policy debate. However, current discourses purported to devise appropriate policy measures for the co-existence of plurality of ethnic and cultural diversities are yet to result in concerted action. Towards building a consensus on the vital importance of cultural diversity, the volume offers illuminating commentaries and ...
At the dawn of the new millennium, Australia is at crossroads seeking redefinition of its identity. Its traditional commitment to the Western alliance system with its recently evolving inclination to seek an identity in the Asia-Pacific has placed the island country in a bind. Overarching these are the forces of globalisation that impinge on past norms of geography and politics seeking revisions in its policies and postures. Poised thus on the "hinges of ...
Today, we are living on the threshold of a new global civilisation. As the world is an indivisible whole, its parts are interrelated and interdependent so that what happens to one part ultimately affects the whole. Progress in one part cannot succeed unless it ultimately spells progress for the whole. Humanity, therefore, is undergoing the birth-pangs of a new evolution which would bring about world unity. All the various experiments that are going on today are ...
Asia, the continent of continents, with its efflorescence of cultures, civilisations, scientific and spiritual attainment, having given so much to the humankind. Our region was crushed by centuries of colonialism. The catastrophic consequences of colonialism affected all the Asian countries, whether they fell directly under colonial domination or retained a semblance of sovereignty. The historic Asian Relations Conference of 1947 symbolised the end of that long ...
The fast changing international environment of today - where issues of economic globalisation and transnational security have become central concerns - has not only reinforced the mutuality of Australian and Indian interests but in turn opened new opportunities for closer cooperation, thereby setting a new milestone in the past fifty years of the history of Indo-Australian relations. The rapidly maturing bilateral relationship is already reaping substantial ...
Geopolitical realities of the 21st century in the aftermath of the Cold war and the currently evolving process of globalisation require construction of a 'New' Security Paradigm designed to meet the emerging regional security challenges of most counties across the world. Keeping his in focus, the book seeks to highlight the increasing mutuality of regional security interests of India and Australia consequent upon emerging global order and the ensuing regional ...
Currently witnessed developments in India-Australia bilateral relations are engaging the attention of scholars on both sides of the Indian Ocean. This book includes the contribution made by leading scholars from both India and Australia having bearing on the political economic and security realities of the emerging global order. Not only do they critically examine the evolving of the dynamics of the India-Australia relations but offer insightful analysis on the ...