South Asia 2007

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215033787

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South Asia by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee Pdf

South Asia is inhabited by some 1.4 billion people, and is one of the world's most dynamic economic regions. This report focuses on India, the geopolitical centre of the region, the world's biggest democracy, and expected to overtake the UK as the fifth largest economy within a decade. It examines: political and economic developments in India and its growing importance; relations between India and Pakistan, and the question of Kashmir; India's role in the region and its links with its neighbours; India's contribution to the international system, including to the United Nations and other multilateral fora, such as the non-proliferation regimes; and the roles of the United Kingdom and the European Union in South Asia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Women
ISBN : 8190501208

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Progress of Women in South Asia, 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231138475

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The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar Pdf

Asian history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0195476867

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Human Development in South Asia 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kishor Sharma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317167983

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Child Labour in South Asia by Kishor Sharma Pdf

Child labour is a serious and contentious issue throughout the developing world and it continues to be a problem whose form and very meaning shifts with social, geographical, economic and cultural context. While the debate about child labour practice in developing countries appears to be motivated by growing competition in labour intensive products brought about by globalization, studies on this issue are both sparse and lopsided. This important book aims to shed light on this debate by documenting the experience of South Asian developing countries which have experienced rapid income and export growth. Based on evidence from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, this volume aims to improve our understanding about the link between trade, growth and child labour practices, as well as management of child labour in developing countries.

Author : Swarna Rajagopalan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317809470

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Security and South Asia by Swarna Rajagopalan Pdf

Stephen Philip Cohen can rightly be called the doyen of South Asian security analysis, especially traditional security concerns in the region and advocacy on US foreign policy. The contributors to the volume have all, at different at different points in time, been Cohen’s students, and are now well-known scholars in their own right. Broadly dividing Cohen’s work into categories, the contributors deal with the following issues: how security is understood and how important strategic relationships are framed approaches to and choices made in the areas of military structure, arms production, and investment in science and technology how and why civil society groups are mobilized towards political ends—specifically looking at ethnic mobilization in diaspora communities, non-official initiatives for peace in South Asia, and the role of state and non-state actors in disaster management the role of the army. The essays reflect a view of security as something people choose to make for themselves through an exercise of agency that is rooted in the realm of ideas.

Author : John Hinnells,Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134192199

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Religion and Violence in South Asia by John Hinnells,Richard King Pdf

Do religions justify and cause violence or are they more appropriately seen as forces for peace and tolerance? Featuring contributions from international experts in the field, this book explores the debate that has emerged in the context of secular modernity about whether religion is a primary cause of social division, conflict and war, or whether this is simply a distortion of the ‘true’ significance of religion and that if properly followed it promotes peace, harmony, goodwill and social cohesion. Focusing on how this debate is played out in the South Asian context, the book engages with issues relating to religion and violence in both its classical and contemporary formations. The collection is designed to look beyond the stereotypical images and idealized portrayals of the peaceful South Asian religious traditions (especially Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sufi), which can occlude their own violent histories and to analyze the diverse attitudes towards, and manifestations of violence within the major religious traditions of South Asia. Divided into three sections, the book also discusses globalization and the theoretical issues that inform contemporary discussions of the relationship between religion and violence.

Author : Kripa Sridharan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789812304353

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Regional Cooperation in South Asia and Southeast Asia by Kripa Sridharan Pdf

Provides a comparative sketch of regional cooperation in South and Southeast Asia in the light of various political, economic and social developments in the two regions.

Author : S. Paul Kapur
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Arms race
ISBN : 9971694433

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Dangerous Deterrent by S. Paul Kapur Pdf

Author : Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills
Publisher : NBR
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780971393882

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Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy by Ashley J. Tellis,Michael Wills Pdf

Based upon work supported by the Department of Energy (National Nuclear Security Administration) under Award Number DE-FG52-03SF22724.

Author : Marie Lall
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789812308276

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The Geopolitics of Energy in South Asia by Marie Lall Pdf

Energy security has become a central concern for all the countries in the Asian region and the search for sufficient sources of energy to fuel economic growth has drastically influenced relations among the South Asian countries as well as their respective relations with their neighbours China, Myanmar, Iran, and Afghanistan. The recent nuclear deal between India and the US is also indicative of how energy and power politics are linked and how these new inter-linkages underlie relations between states. This book aims to give a South Asian perspective on the geopolitics of energy, with a central focus on India. The chapters address how India's global and regional foreign policy making has changed in light of India's search for energy and how this is affecting the relationship on a global level between India and the US, as well as on a regional level between India and the other Asian countries. The book also offers views from Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as how this shifting reality is affecting relations between India and Southeast Asia.

Author : Monika Barthwal-Datta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415616317

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Understanding Security Practices in South Asia by Monika Barthwal-Datta Pdf

This book aims to explore the ways in which non-state actors (NSAs) in South Asia ' media actors, epistemic communities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society groups and others ' are involved in securitising non-traditional security challenges in the region at the domestic and regional levels.

Author : Ashley J. Tellis,Abraham M. Denmark,Travis Tanner
Publisher : NBR
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781939131287

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Strategic Asia 2013-14 by Ashley J. Tellis,Abraham M. Denmark,Travis Tanner Pdf

The 2013-14 Strategic Asia volume examines the role of nuclear weapons in the grand strategies of key Asian states and assesses the impact of these capabilities—both established and latent—on regional and international stability. In each chapter, a leading expert explores the historical, strategic, and political factors that drive a country's calculations vis-a-vis nuclear weapons and draws implications for American interests.

Author : Filippo Osella,Caroline Osella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031753

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Islamic Reform in South Asia by Filippo Osella,Caroline Osella Pdf

The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a 'reformist' Islam. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as 'wah'habism') and branded as extremist - if not altogether demonised as terrorist.

Author : Ali Riaz,Zobaida Nasreen,Fahmida Zaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351118200

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Political Violence in South Asia by Ali Riaz,Zobaida Nasreen,Fahmida Zaman Pdf

Political violence has remained an integral part of South Asian society for decades. The region has witnessed and continued to encounter violence for achieving political objectives from above and from below. Violence is perpetrated by the state, by non-state actors, and used by the citizens as a form of resistance. Ethnic insurgency, religion-inspired extremism, and ideology-driven hostility are examples of violent acts that have emerged as challenges to the states which have responded with violence in the form of civil war and through violations of human rights disregarding international norms. This book explores various dimensions of political violence in South Asia, namely in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Each chapter either speaks to an important aspect of the political violence or provides an overall picture of the nature and scope of political violence in the respective country. Political violence is understood in the larger sense of political, that is, above and beyond institutions, and also as an integral part of social relationships where social norms and the role of individual agency play seminal roles. The contributions in this book incorporate both institutional and non-institutional dimensions of political violence. Exploring how everyday life in South Asian states and societies is transformed by the engagement with violence through direct and indirect methods, this book adopts an interdisciplinary framework; diverse methods are employed – from ethnographic readings to more macro level analyses. The phenomenon is explored from historical, sociological, and political perspectives. This book will be useful as a supplementary text in courses on South Asian Studies in general and South Asian Politics in particular.