The Routledge Handbook of South Asia

Region, Security and Connectivity
Herausgeber: Raju, Adluri Subramanyam; Srinivasan, R.

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Produktbeschreibung

This handbook presents an authoritative overview of South Asia through the lens of geopolitics, political dynamics, economics, human security, and sustainable development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781032246543
• ISBN-10: 1032246545
• Artikelnr.: 72110032

Autorenporträt

Adluri Subramanyam Raju, Ph.D., Dean, International Relations; Professor and Head, UMISARC and Centre for South Asian Studies; Coordinator, UGC Centre for Maritime Studies, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. R. Srinivasan, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies, and Director, Praghna Centre for Research, India.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables viii
List of Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Adluri Subramanyam Raju and R. Srinivasan
PART 1
South Asia as a Region 15
1 Post-Colonial Identities, Ethnic Conflicts, and Security Dilemma in South
Asia 17
Rajpal Budania
2 South Asian Identity: Examining the State-Society Interface 31
Udayan Das and Ambar Kumar Ghosh
PART 2
Political, Social and Security Systems in South Asia 47
3 Politics of Democracy in South Asia: People's Aspiration and the
Structure of the State 49
Smruti S. Pattanaik
4 Transition of Monarchy in South Asia: The Case of Nepal 65
Raksha Pandey
5 Transitions in Governance: Polity, Policy, and Regionalism in South Asia
78
R. Srinivasan
6 Civil Society in South Asia: Plurality, Convergence and Paradoxes 96
Amit Dholakia
7 Religion and Politics in South Asia: Select Case Studies 110
Partha Pratim Basu
8 Lilliputians' Dilemma: Survival Strategies of Small States in South Asia
131
N. Manoharan
9 Untangling the South Asia-China Nuclear Problematique 147
Ravi Komarraju
PART 3
Commerce and Connectivity in South Asia 159
10 Impact of Globalization on South Asia 161
I. P. Khosla
11 Prospects of Growth Dynamism in South Asia: Trade and Investment as
Drivers of Regional Development 176
Saroj Kumar Mohanty
12 A Novel Approach for Integration in South Asia: Through Trade Promotion
and Economic Corridors 198
Srimal Fernando
13 Connectivity Across South Asia: Possibilities and Intrinsic Challenges
213
Pankaj K. Jha
14 Developments in Sustainable Blue Economy in South Asia 227
V. N. Attri
PART 4
Human Security in South Asia 243
15 Climate Change and River Waters in South Asia: Scarcity, Security and
the Avoidance of Zero-Sum Approaches in the Anthropocene Epoch 245
Ananya Sharma and Varun Sahni
16 Governing Water Resources in India: Role of Water Law, Policy, and
Institutions 263
Vandana Asthana
17 Environment and Sustainable Development in South Asia 276
Nitya Nanda and Susmita Mitra
18 Energy Security and Cooperation in South Asia 293
Adluri Subramanyam Raju
PART 5
South Asia in a Multipolar World 309
19 A Sub-Regional Resuscitation in South Asia: Enlivening the BIMSTEC 311
Sohini Nayak
20 Comparing the SAARC and the ASEAN 326
Uttara Sahasrabuddhe
21 The European Union's Relations with South Asia 339
Ummu Salma Bava
22 China in South Asia: The Xi Jinping Era 354
Reena Marwah
23 United States-South Asia Relations: Challenges and Opportunities Facing
the Biden Administration 365
M. J. Vinod
24 The Multipolar World and South Asia 380
Anindya Jyoti Majumdar
Index 391