India and former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) of which the present State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (SM) had been a part) enjoyed close and friendly relations. Personal friendship between late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India and the late President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia was legendary. The warm political relations between India and the former Yugoslavia resulted in growing bilateral economic relations in the hey days of the Non Aligned Movement in the 1960’s. However, these bilateral economic relations have been going through a declining phase for several years due to the impact of several dramatic developments at the global; regional; and national levels. SM and other successor states of SFRY as a region have experienced continuing political turmoils and ethnic conflicts and internal wars in the post cold war period since the disintegration of the former Soviet Union. SM has faced international economic sanctions and bombarding by the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation which have delayed its recovery and economic progress. At the turn of the twenty-first century, both India and Serbia-Montenegro are rediscovering themselves in the vastly changed context of the global, regional and national developments. Both countries are now desirous of re-engaging especially in economic terms to reap mutual benefits. The Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and the Institute of International Politics and Economics at Belgrade took the initiative of organizing annual bilateral policy dialogues to assess the gains from and effective ways for re-engagement between India and Serbia. This book presents selected papers from the first two such policy dialogues at Track-II level held in 2003 and 2004. This book should be found useful by policy makers and researchers worldwide interested in regional and bilateral co-operation in India, Asia, Serbia-Montenegro and Europe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charan D. Wadhva
Charan D. Wadhva, Ph.D. (Yale University, USA) is Research Professor and the Former President and Chief Executive at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India. He has served as Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad. He also held the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professorship at that Institute. He was the first Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New Delhi. He served as a Member of the National Security Advisory Board, Government of India during 2002-03 and 2003-04. He has been a Consultant to various National and International Organisations. He has also served on Boards (and constituent bodies) of corporations and educational institutions. He is also a member of the editorial board of reputed journals including the Pacific Affairs published by University of British Columbia, Canada. He has several books and articles in professional journals to his credit.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vatroslav Vekaric
Vatroslav Vekaric, Ph.D. (Belgrade University) born in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in 1944, is Director of the Institute of International Politics and Economics (IIPE) in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro’s leading institute in the field of international studies. In the period before the break-up of Yugoslavia he was the first Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies (CSS) in Belgrade. In the 1990’2 he has worked frequently abroad, teaching at several Italian universities and participating in research visiting programmes in Denmark and Italy. Having published several books and articles, he has written extensively about international relations issues relating mostly to the fields of Security Studies and Balkan and Mediterranean Studies. He is a member of various editorial bodies, (including Journal of International Relations, Hampshire, England, Nuova Fase, Rome and International Problems, Belgrade). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Review of International Affairs.
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