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The end of the Cold War ushered in a new international security environment that can no longer be explained by the dominant security paradigms utilized by governments and analysts since World War II. Inter-state conflicts have been replaced by rising occurrences of intra-state violence; the state as the central focus of international affairs has given way to a host of non-state actors; and, it has become increasingly evident that the greatest threat to security ...
Globalization is the process whereby the world’s people are becoming increasingly interconnected in all facets of their lives – cultural, economic, political, technological, and environmental. It has fallen short of the promises of growth, increased employment, higher wages and greater welfare that are touted by the advocates of free trade and financial flows. The process of globalisation entails risks also. In an environment of slow and erratic growth of the ...
The world order is rapidly changing due to global structures of production, trade and communication, it is often contended. Increasingly, the world is becoming one through the revolution in telecommunication, in transportation and in the formation of global financial markets. Today the world is more democratic than ever before and the processes of democratization and good governance are gathering momentum, both within individual countries and in international ...
A great part of the Asian continent, South Asia has been always full of variables over the last few decades. Over half a century after independence, the nations of South Asia remain mired in a vicious cycle of poverty, deprivation, and underdevelopment. Throughout the region, the search for prosperity and democracy is too often overshadowed by the specter of war and terrorism. South Asia cannot be stable until there is a just and equitable settlement of ...