The contributors to the volume focus on the problems faced by South Asian countries and suggest solutions to improve economic cooperation between countries. They examine the challenges to the region which include a low gross domestic product, disparities at various levels, extremism, insurgency, absence of collective identity and inter-state conflicts over boundaries that have resulted in instability and insecurity. Based on an international seminar, the papers discuss ways to reduce poverty, improve infrastructure to improve bilateral relations, and issues of connectivity and trade and cultural integration and diplomacy. Specifically viewing India’s ties with Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh, they focus on regionalism in South Asia and the significance and ability of the SAARC to accomplish the goal of regional integration.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Adluri Subramanyam Raju
Adluri Subramanyam Raju is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Centre for SAARC Studies, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. Earlier, he was Honorary Academic Fellow at the Indo-American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad. He is Associate Editor for an International Journal Indian Ocean Survey. Mr. Raju received his Ph.D. from the Department of Poltiical Science, University of Hyderabad. He was Saizburg Seminar Fellow (2006) and the recipient of the Kodikara Award (1998) and Mahbub Ul Haq Award (2003) cnferred by the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo and Scholar of Peace (2002) by Women in Security Conflict Management & Peace (WISCOMP), New Delhi. His area of research interest is on conflict resolution and cnfidence building measures with reference to South Asia. His publications include, Democracies at Loggerheads: Security Aspects of US-India Ralations, New Delhi and Colorado: South Asian Publishsers and International Academic Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2001; Third-Generation Indian Perceptions of the Kashmir Issue, Colombo: RCSS, 2001; Indian Women Scientists’ Perceptions of the Nuclear Issue, New Delhi; WISCOMP, 2005; co-authored, Maritime Cooperation between india and Sri Lanka, New Delhi; Manohar Publishers, 2006; (ed.), Nuclear India: Problems and Perspectives, New Delhi and Colorado: South Asian Publishers and Interantional Academic Publshers Pvt. Ltd. 2000; Terrorism in South Asia: Views from India, New Deli and Singapore; India Research Press and Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2004; and Reconstructing South Asia; An Agenda, New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House, 2007.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohanan B. Pillai
Mohanan B Pillai is Professor and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, Pondicherry University, Puducherry. A teacher of repute for more than three decades, he is the founder Editor of ISDA Journal-Studies in Development and Administration, Trivandrum. He is also the founder Editor of international Journal of South Asian Studies, Pondicherry University. Specialisting in development studies, South Asian studies and political theory, he has published several books, research papers and articles in these areas.
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