The South Asian region is confronted with enormous challenges ranging from regime instability, low level of economic development, human security, mutual conflicts of nations, growing tentacles of terrorism, militarisation of political systems to arms race and nuclearisation. It is amidst these constraints the regional grouping i.e. South Asian Association of Regional Co-Operation not only addresses the different dimensions of human development strategies in South Asia in the 21 century, it also provides a forum to deliberate over the challenges it faces and seeks viable remedies of these problems. Although its viability as a strong regional forum, like ASEAN and GCC, is often questioned nevertheless SAARC has successfully established its credentials in the comity of nations. This book probes all these issues that impinge upon the political and strategic dynamics of South Asia with remarkable subtlety.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Madhurendra Kumar
Madhurendra Kumar is M.A. in Politics from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is a senior Reader in Political Science at Hindu College, Moradabad. Currently, he is associated with the Department of Political Science, C.C.S. University, Meerut as UGC Research Awardee. He has several research papers and a book published to his credit. He is life member of various professional bodies and a columnist on International Affairs in monthly magazines. He has been actively participating in international and National Seminars Conferences and symposia. He is also an Associate of the India Institute of Advance Study, Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.K. Chaturvedi
S.K. Chaturvedi is professor and head department of Political Science and Coordinator of Public Administration, Chaudhary Charan Singh University (formerly Meerut University) Meerut. He has been engaged in teaching Post Graduate and M.Phil students and in supervising research projects of Ph.D. scholars for more than two decades. He has authored and edited ten books and sixty papers and articles of which one and half a dozen formulate chapters of books in the areas of South Asian Politics and Relations, Criminal Justice Administration and India Political System. Dr. Chaturvedi has received Govind Ballabh Pant Award constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi for writing the History of Police in India. He also edits a bi-annual journal and is advisor to Vikas Paricharcha, a journal of the department of Public Administration, Lucknow University, Lucknow (U.P) Member of several academic associations of the national repute; professor Chaturvedi is currently the Vice President of Indian political Science Association.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sanjeev Kumar Sharma
Dr. S.K. Sharma is a senior reader in Political Science in C.C.S. University, Meerut. He has vast experience of teaching and research for more than two decades. He has to his credit one book, four edited volumes, one monograph, forty research papers and forty articles. He had visited many countries and contributed in more than hundred seminars, conferences and academic events by way of presenting papers, keynote address and chairing the technical sessions. He is presently the editor of the Indian journal of political science.
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