Narottam Gaan
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Contents: 1. China's growing pace in Nepal a threat to India: Nepal's policy options between principle and pragmatism/Dasarathi Bhuiyan. 2. Challenges and strategies: rethinking Indian foreign policy in a new century/M. Shafi Bhat. 3. Foreign policy in Narendra Modi/Sudhansubala Das. 4. Internal conflicts in Nepal and its ramifications for India/Bagisha Suman and Prashant Kumar. 5. India's act easy policy and Indo-Japan relations: a new strategic dyad/Anish V R ...
The articles written from various perspectives deal with the threat of climate change to human security. Taking into view India’s views and role in climate change negotiations and with specific reference to Africa and India’s neighbours while studying the challenges and response to climate change, they delve into the impact of climate change which was not seen as a threat and hence not crafted within the contours of state security and its associated ...
What has come in for the most daunting challenge to the ingrained conventional pronouncement of security in Westphalia parlance built around state and its corresponding apparatus is none else than the very inordinate and relentless human interference into the functioning of nature in pursuit of development, requirements of modernity and civilized and exorbitant life style culminating in climate change along with its apocalyptic consequences wrought on human ...
To define national security and uncover the underlying causes of inter-state strifes and subnational conflicts in various parts of the globe in cold war parlance is grossly inadequate and is also insufficient to combat the mounting challenges and threats stemming from catastrophic environmental degradation. Revisioning the conventional cold war understanding and logic, this book endeavours to unearth the predominant causes and factors, so far sidelined, of ...
The predominance of the realist paradigm of national security used to pontificate the Post Second World War view, dimension and design of international security declines with environmental catastrophe. Imperiously state centric and premised on enhanced state secrecy, nuclear and military power it was understood in terms of spatial strategies of distancing and boundary making as the key to the protection of geographically demarcated political community known as ...
The western view of development and modernity premised on matter, ensconces it emblematic faith in technology, centrality of instrumental reason, the imperishability of human freedom at the expense of what the Eastern mysticism holds as sacred and eternal. Al of these basics of western doctrine of progress with the advent of industrial revolution have been considered as sources of an environmental destructive dominant cultural tendency clamping on all the diverse ...