The Routledge Handbook of South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000926293
• Artikelnr.: 68527056

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