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The geopolitics of South Asia makes it one of the most dangerous places to live in today. The collapse of the Soviet Union has destabilized long-established cold war equations and unleashed violent processes of transformation, of jockeying for power and control, and of neo-colonial and political adventurism. Terrorism is at the heart of the new paradigms of covert aggression that underlies these processes, and this scourge is spreading across the Indian ...
The uncritical hysteria of expectations and the almost delusional character of ‘analyses’ that dominates media reportage on ‘peace initiatives’ pushes the ground realities of internal conflicts into the far background. We thus have the repeated experience of a comprehensive failure on the part of the political establishment to accommodate the complex and destructive dynamic of fragmented and unimaginative state responses confronting the endless ...
Events since September 11, 2001, have inflicted transformations on patterns of terrorism and counter-terrorism that would have been inconceivable even days prior to the catastrophic attacks in America. The present volume turns a critical focus on a wide range of conflicts, as well as initiatives for response and resolution in the context of the post-9/11 era, reassessing the past against the backdrop of emerging trends. Divergent perspectives on terrorism, the ...
The ‘Global War against Terror’ notwithstanding, the sources, the power and the impact of terrorism continue to extend themselves into uncharted geographical areas. Though the world today recognizes the imperatives of the containment of terrorist violence, more than a year after 9/11, there is little evidence of a consistent international resolve to do what is necessary to secure this end. Counter-terrorism responses, both in ...