D Suba Chandran
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of how India, China and other South Asian countries can cooperate on key challenges affecting their bilateral relationships.
It asserts that with pertinent policy guidelines and timely initiatives from the participating countries, unprecedented opportunities can be capitalized upon for consolidated economic growth of the region. It exposes how untapped resources, bureaucratic and political inertia and a lack of collective ...
This book seeks to examine the various aspects related to armed conflicts in South Asia, taking both inter-state and intra-state actors into account. It addresses three major security aspects in the region—armed conflict, peace audit and early warning—and evaluates the gap between the end of violence and the response to peace, assessing whether peace processes are fragile in the region.
Highlighting the early warning of impending armed conflicts, it ...
This volume, fifth in the series, describes the transformations witnessed in the armed conflicts of South Asia over 2010-11. Armed conflicts pose one of the most important threats to the process of governance in South Asia. The region is not only violent, but is also characterized by the inability of states to deal successfully with different aspects of violence ethnic, political, ideological and communal.
The critical issue addressed in this volume is how armed ...
This book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia. The articles study conflict management, look at the direction the armed conflict is likely to take and provide a set of alternative measures that could be pursued by the actors.Designed as an annual series, the articles provide a brief historical sketch of the emergence of armed conflict, outlining its various phases. This volume examines the various armed conflicts in South Asia in 2009 – in ...
Southeast Asia is region that has in the past two decades, ascended to an area of great strategic importance for India both in terms of the Asian geopolitical balance but also as a nucleus of regional and international commerce. India’s Look East Policy which aims to foster deeper collaboration in a range of sectors with our Southeast Asian neighbors hopes to do so primarily through land based linkages with India's northeast.This book focuses on both ...
9/11 changed the contours of the international system. It also enhanced the terrorist threat to India. Pakistan`s role in the War against Terrorism has informed its promotion of terrorist activities across its eastern border after it was coerced into assisting the US campaign against terrorism on Pakistan`s western border and in Afghanistan. The terrorist attacks against the J & K Assembly and the Indian Parliament, the Army camp at Kaluchak and the ...
South Asia has 14 percent of the world’s refugee population and is the principal source and host of refugees. The causes behind the displacement –political instability armed conflict, lack of resources and so on in South Asia and its immediate neighborhood have not declined but, in fact, have not declined but, in fact, have been increasing; and the security threats posed by the refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs0 is set to increase given the lack ...
While the armed conflicts in the recent years have become bloodier in South Asia, the peace processes could not be sustained for various factors. Initiating a peace process is easier than to sustain it. In the last few years, a series of peace processes have been initiated in South Asia in Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, India's Northeast and Sri Lanka. The presence of numerous actors, role of civil society, space and rules of bargaining, lack of ...
The last sixteen years have witnessed violence and instability in Jammu and Kashmir irrespective of bilateral peace processes with Pakistan and internal dialogues. The last two years, 2005 and 2006 were of enormous significance, for both Indo-Pak dialogue and intra-Kashmiri interactions. For the first time since independence, a formal bus service has been inaugurated between Muzaffarabad and Srinagar, to be followed by another service between Poonch ...