South Asian Regionalism

Author : Chakma, Bhumitra
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529205169

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South Asian Regionalism by Chakma, Bhumitra Pdf

Leading South Asia expert Bhumitra Chakma explains the politics of regionalism in South Asia and traces the origins and evolution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) from its inception to the present day. He takes an International Relations perspective and engages three major IR theoretical approaches – neorealism, institutionalism and constructivism – to explain the complex dynamics of South Asian regionalism. Using comparative perspectives based on the experiences of similar regional organizations, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges of cooperation in the region and explores how progress might be made in the future.

Author : Kishore C. Dash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134084531

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Regionalism in South Asia by Kishore C. Dash Pdf

The dramatic surge in regional integration schemes over the past two decades has been one of the most important developments in world politics. This book examines regionalism in South Asia, exploring the linkages between institutional structures, government capabilities, and domestic actors’ preferences to explain the dynamics of regional cooperation.

Author : Chakma, Bhumitra
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529205152

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South Asian Regionalism by Chakma, Bhumitra Pdf

Leading South Asia expert Bhumitra Chakma explains the politics of regionalism in South Asia and traces the origins and evolution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) from its inception to the present day. He takes an International Relations perspective and engages three major IR theoretical approaches – neorealism, institutionalism and constructivism – to explain the complex dynamics of South Asian regionalism. Using comparative perspectives based on the experiences of similar regional organizations, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges of cooperation in the region and explores how progress might be made in the future.

Author : Zahid Shahab Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317069003

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Regionalism and Regional Security in South Asia by Zahid Shahab Ahmed Pdf

Zahid Shahab Ahmed evaluates the progress of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). This study goes beyond economic integration to present a detailed appraisal of cooperation under the overarching themes of economic cooperation, environmental security, human welfare, and cooperation in security matters. According to the author, SAARC is making progress in addressing the myriad of issues on its agenda. The transition from agreements to actions and frequent interactions among the member states has boosted confidence. The progress of SAARC is more evident in the less controversial areas of human security, such as poverty alleviation, health and safety, human resources development, and higher education. Notwithstanding enthusiastic commitments reflected in agreements and action plans, there is a gulf between rhetoric and implementation most notably in sensitive areas relating to traditional security. In the light of the findings of this study, the author proposes that greater cooperation in common human security areas has a potential to pave the way for a cooperation on issues of a ’contentious’ nature, particularly terrorism.

Author : B. Mohanan
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Distri
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Regionalism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Politics of Regionalism in South Asia by B. Mohanan Pdf

Author : Sue Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317312543

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The United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism by Sue Thompson Pdf

The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could participate. This book analyses the development of United States regional cooperation policy on Southeast Asia and its importance to long-term planning for the region that had been the general aim of successive American post-war administrations. The author demonstrates the link between economic regional cooperation and collective security in Southeast Asia, placing regionalism in an international context by examining the influence United States policy and various important events had on the development of Southeast Asian regionalism. Through the analysis of primary material, including previously classified material, in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia and engagement with historiography of war and peace in Southeast Asia, the book puts forward the argument that Southeast Asian regional cooperation was influenced by both American and Asian policy and its development reflected the economic and political transformation of the post-war Southeast Asian landscape. It also examines the developments in British and Australian policy and how developments in Southeast Asia influenced and, in turn, were affected by the policies of the Western powers. Adding to the current discourse concerning the origins of Southeast Asian regionalism, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Southeast Asian studies, United States political history, international relations and regionalism.

Author : Sultan Hafeez Rahman,Sridhar Khatri,Hans-Peter Brunner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781005248

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Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia by Sultan Hafeez Rahman,Sridhar Khatri,Hans-Peter Brunner Pdf

South Asian leaders have made it a priority to tackle key regional issues such as poverty, environment degradation, trade and investment barriers and food insecurity, among others.

Author : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814311496

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Southeast Asian Regionalism by Nicholas Tarling Pdf

With the disappearance of the imperial structures that had dominated Southeast Asia, newly independent states had to develop foreign policies of their own. But so far few if any of these states have been willing to allow the public to explore any documentation of their activities. Building on his earlier work that drew on U.K. records, the author incorporates material from New Zealand archives -- which also contain reports from Australian and Canadian diplomats -- to provide a historical analysis of the foreign policies of Southeast Asian nations from a New Zealand perspective.

Author : Mark Beeson,Richard Stubbs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136634734

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Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism by Mark Beeson,Richard Stubbs Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Asian Regionalism is a definitive introduction to, and analysis of, the development of regionalism in Asia, including coverage of East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The contributors engage in a comprehensive exploration of what is arguably the most dynamic and important region in the world. Significantly, this volume addresses the multiple manifestations of regionalism in Asia and is consequently organised thematically under the headings of: conceptualizing the region economic issues political issues strategic issues regional organizations As such, the Handbook presents some of the key elements of the competing interpretations of this important and highly contested topic, giving the reader a chance to evaluate not just where Asian regionalism is going but also how the scholarship on Asian regionalism is analysing these trends and events. This book will be an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Asian politics, international relations and regionalism.

Author : Kripa Sridharan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Nicholas Tarling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134181056

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Regionalism in Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling Pdf

Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and the effects of these bonds on the development of regionalism. This innovative book begins by defining the meaning of 'region' and 'regionalism' and then applies it to periods in history in Southeast Asia, looking at how patterns of regionalism have shifted through time to the present day. By focusing on the regional perspective Nicholas Tarling gives an original treatment of Southeast Asian history, its political dynamics and its international realtions. Regionalism in Southeast Asia completes a trilogy of books on Southeast Asia by Nicholas Tarling published by Routledge, the other two are Nationalism in Southeast Asia and Imperialism in Southeast Asia.

Author : Alice D. Ba
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804776301

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(Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia by Alice D. Ba Pdf

This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably weak cooperation? How has a group of lesser, self-identified Southeast Asian powers gone beyond its original regional purview to shape the form and content of Asian Pacific and East Asian regionalisms? According to Alice Ba, the answers lie in ASEAN's founding arguments: arguments that were premised on an assumed regional disunity. She demonstrates how these arguments draw critical causal connections that make Southeast Asian regionalism a necessary response to problems, give rise to its defining informality and consensus-seeking process, and also constrain ASEAN's regionalism. Tracing debates about ASEAN's intra- and extra-regional relations over four decades, she argues for a process-driven view of cooperation, sheds light on intervening processes of argument and debate, and highlights interacting material, ideational, and social forces in the construction of regions and regionalisms.

Author : Shveta Dhaliwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Regionalism
ISBN : 8175331879

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Development of Regionalism in South Asia by Shveta Dhaliwal Pdf

This book is modest attempt to trace the history of regionalism at international level and to bring out its importance. After given a short description of the regional arrangements all over the world, the book focuses on South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) and the regional organization representing it, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation i.e. SAARC. The book focuses on SAARC, its origin and organization and also gives a detailed description of all the Declarations of SAARC Summit so that for further research these original documents could be made available in texts. The author has given special emphasis to the Social Charter of SAARC and has tried to bring out its importance. The book gives an account of the problems of SAARC and South Asia. This book concludes with some hope future prospects of regional cooperation and economic integration.

Author : Amitav Acharya
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801466342

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The Making of Southeast Asia by Amitav Acharya Pdf

Developing a framework to study "what makes a region," Amitav Acharya investigates the origins and evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism and international relations. He views the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) "from the bottom up" as not only a U.S.-inspired ally in the Cold War struggle against communism but also an organization that reflects indigenous traditions. Although Acharya deploys the notion of "imagined community" to examine the changes, especially since the Cold War, in the significance of ASEAN dealings for a regional identity, he insists that "imagination" is itself not a neutral but rather a culturally variable concept. The regional imagination in Southeast Asia imagines a community of nations different from NAFTA or NATO, the OAU, or the European Union. In this new edition of a book first published as The Quest for Identity in 2000, Acharya updates developments in the region through the first decade of the new century: the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1997, security affairs after September 2001, the long-term impact of the 2004 tsunami, and the substantial changes wrought by the rise of China as a regional and global actor. Acharya argues in this important book for the crucial importance of regionalism in a different part of the world.

Author : Jean Grugel,Wil Hout
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134717194

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Regionalism across the North/South Divide by Jean Grugel,Wil Hout Pdf

In contrast to most studies of regionalism, Grugel and Hout focus on countries not currently at the core of the global economy, including Brazil and Mercosur, Chile, South East Asia, China, South Africa, the Maghreb, Turkey and Australia. What seems clear from this original analysis is that far from being peripheral, these countries are forming regional power blocs of their own, which could go on to hold the balance of power in the new world order.