South Asia in the World: Problem Solving Perspectives on Security, Sustainable Development, and Good Governance

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One of every five people in the world lives in the countries of South Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The problems they face are so huge that they present a defining challenge to the core mandates of the United Nations as the globle arena for problem-solving. These challenges range from economic development, environmental protection, and food and water security, to democratic governance and human rights, nuclear war and peace, inter state and internal conflicts, and new security issues like AIDS and international terrorism. What happens in South Asia will help shape the contours of the global community in the decades ahead. We must come to terms with the multitude and gravity of these challenges in order to give the concept of the ‘international community’ a practical meaning and encapsulate the notion of solidarity without borders’. Two of the central purposes of the United Nations – to maintain international peace and security and to promote social and economic advancement make it imperative for the organisation to address these issue in South Asia. South Asia in the world develops the dialogue between academics and practitioners from a deeply divided region. In it they explore the potential for improvement in domestic and international efforts to alleviate the problems of South Asia and the role that the UN can play in this respect.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramesh Thakur

Ramesh Thakur is Professor and Vice Rector at the United Nations University, Tokyo. A leading interntional authority on UN issues and peacekeeping, he is the author/editor of eighteen books and has written over 150 articles for reputed international journals. He has also served as a commissioner of the Interntional Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which came out with the document Responsibility to Protect in 2001.

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Title
South Asia in the World: Problem Solving Perspectives on Security, Sustainable Development, and Good Governance
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Edition
1st ed.
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8185040915
Length
xxiv+451p., Tables; Figures.
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