This volume includes a collection of papers contributed by eminent scholars and analysts from the South Asian region on how they visualise South Asia a decade hence. This was primarily motivated b the desire to think collectively about our regional future in terms of issues that challenges the region and the individuals states; how the external powers' presence in this region affects it; and the role of regional institutional mechanisms in fostering cooperation and greater economic integration in a globalised world, where connectivity is a key.
It is recognised that the region suffers from several constraints that has made common challenges difficult to address; nevertheless, there is an optimism that the region will move forward steadily albeit slowly, to evolve a common agenda, and shape a regional identity that would form the bedrock of any cooperative endeavour.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Smruti S. Pattanaik
Smruti S. Pattanaik, PhD. is Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. Her area of specialization is security and foreign policy issues in South Asia with special focus on Indo-Pak security relations, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her other areas of research include migration and refugees issues. Dr. Pattanaik has contributed to journals and books extensively in India and abroad. She is currently a recipient of the Asia Fellowship 2003 and is researching on ‘State Formation in South Asia: Role of Identity and Nationalism in the Making of Pakistan and Bangladesh’. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations, Dhaka University, Dhaka, and is also attached to Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad as a Visiting Research Fellow for conducting research on the above-mentioned topic.
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