This book explores buffer states' agency beyond being highly interactive spaces for the competing strategic and security interests of larger powers. Analysing twenty-one political events the author offers a new conceptual framework for the buffer state, which emphasizes strategic utility and agency of the buffer state.
This book explores buffer states' agency beyond being highly interactive spaces for the competing strategic and security interests of larger powers. Analysing twenty-one political events the author offers a new conceptual framework for the buffer state, which emphasizes strategic utility and agency of the buffer state.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bibek Chand is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of North Georgia, USA. His research interests include Sino-Indian interactions in Asia, international relations of small states, the emerging notion of the Indo-Pacific, Nepal's foreign policy, and geopolitics.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Discussing the Buffer State Concept: Old and New Frameworks 3. Contextualizing Nepal as a Buffer State 4. Timeframe I: Critical Junctures 1947 62 5. Timeframe II: Critical Junctures 1962 90 6. Timeframe III: Critical Junctures 1990 2008 7. Timeframe IV: Critical Junctures 2009 2022 8. Conclusion