Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia

Introduction

Šumit Ganguly and Frank O’Donnell

PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF SOUTH ASIA

1. Realist Approaches to the International Relations of South Asia

Rajesh Rajagopalan

2. Liberal Approaches to the International Relations of South Asia

Ian Hall

3. Constructivist Approaches to the International Relations of South Asia

Aditi Malhotra

4. Critical Theory Approaches to the International Relations of South Asia

Shibashis Chatterjee

PART II: TRADITIONAL AND EMERGING SECURITY ISSUES IN SOUTH ASIA

5. Indian Strategic Culture

Rajesh Basrur

6. Pakistan’s Strategic Culture

Jamison C. Heinkel

7. The Evolution of the Sino-Indian Rivalry

Manjeet S. Pardesi

8. The Evolution of the India-Pakistan Rivalry

Mahesh Shankar

9. India’s Nuclear Weapons Program

Yogesh Joshi

10. Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program

Hannah Haegeland and Arzan Tarapore　

11. Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in South Asia: Government Support for Militant Groups in South Asia

Tricia Bacon

12. Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies in South Asia

Subhasish Ray

13. Indian and Pakistani Conventional Military Doctrines

Frank O’Donnell

14. Track Two Diplomacy and the India-Pakistan Conflict

Peter Jones

15. Human Security in South Asia

Swarna Rajagopalan

16. South Asia: States of Cyber(in)security

Trisha Ray

PART III: THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF SOUTH ASIA

17. Afghanistan’s Relations with South Asia: Diplomacy amid Conflict

Michael Kugelman

18. Sri Lanka and South Asia

Nilanthi Samaranayake

19. Bangladesh’s International Relations with South Asia and Beyond

Ali Riaz

20. Domestic Politics and Structural Constraints: Pakistan and its South Asian Neighbors

Ryan Brasher

21. India’s Relations with Her Neighbours

Chris Ogden

22. Reinventing Non-Alignment in South Asia:The Foreign Policies of Nepal and the Maldives

Nicolas Blarel and Constantino Xavier

23. Trends in U.S. Policy Toward South Asia

Jeff Smith

24. China and South Asia: Beijing Builds Influence

Andrew Scobell

25. Russia and South Asia

Vidya Nadkarni

26. Japan’s Relations with South Asia

Monika Chansoria

27. The UK and South Asia

David Scott

28. France and South Asia

Gilles Boquérat

29. Germany’s South Asia Policy

Christian Wagner

PART IV: CROSS-CUTTING REGIONAL ISSUES

30. The Politics of Climate Change in South Asia

Dhanasree Jayaram

31. Polycentric versus State-Led South Asian Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dinsha Mistree

32. Refugees and Migration in South Asia

Kavita Khory

33. Space Programs, Policies, and Diplomacy in South Asia

Ajey Lele

34. Regional Trade and Investment in South Asia

Surupa Gupta

Biography

Šumit Ganguly is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is an author or editor of over 20 books, including the Routledge Handbook of Asian Security Studies (2009; 2019).

Frank O’Donnell is the Deputy Director of the South Asia Program at the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC. He publishes and comments widely on Southern Asian security issues, including co-authoring India and Nuclear Asia: Forces, Doctrine, and Dangers (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2019).

'This is, hands down, the most comprehensive volume on South Asia’s geostrategy, security, and international relations published to date. Juxtaposing leading IR theories with essays by noted country experts, it is an indispensable resource for scholars, policymakers, and students seeking to understand a complex and increasingly important region.'

Neil DeVotta, Wake Forest University, USA

'Enriched by the four theoretical approaches to the study of International Relations of South Asia, the articles included in the book provide a variety of perspectives on aspects of traditional and non-traditional securities besides raising the agenda of redefinition of security. The book is immensely useful to the serious scholars, policy makers and students of international relations of South Asia.'

Lok Raj Baral, Former Professor Political Science,Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, and Former Ambassador of Nepal to India

'This intellectually rigorous and comprehensive handbook is a significant contribution to the understanding of South Asia’s dealings with the world and to IR studies in general. Presenting the views of preeminent scholars and applying IR theory to south Asian practice, the 34 chapters of the book reveal the strengths and limitations of different theoretical approaches, examine strategic culture, illuminate the international relationships of major actors, and describe the longer term implications of trans-national issues like terrorism, climate change and outer space. Its writing makes it accessible to the informed layman. This is a book to savour, to return to often, and is destined to become a standard work of reference, setting a high standard for future scholars of South Asian IR.'

Shivshankar Menon, Centre for China Studies, Ashoka University, India

'This is an extraordinarily comprehensive, up to date, and high-quality volume on South Asia’s international relations. Its 34 chapters cover the four major theoretical approaches – realism, liberalism, constructivism and critical theory – and the entire gamut of issues from longstanding security issues within the region to emerging security issues like cybersecurity, space and refugees, to political economy, to country-specific international relations, perspectives from major world capitals and cross-national issues such as climate change and Covid. It will be a vital reference point for scholars of IR working on South Asia for a long time to come.'

Eswaran Sridharan, Academic Director and Chief Executive Officer, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi, India