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South Asia Approaches The Millennium Reexamining National Security
245 Pages
by
Routledge
245 Pages
by
Routledge
245 Pages
by
Routledge
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This innovative volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding South Asia's precarious security. Going far beyond common considerations of border defense and regime, the contributors rigorously trace the social, economic, and ecological origins of present antagonisms. Although careful attention is paid to state military policies in the post-Cold War era—particularly as... Read more
Introduction -- Security Regimes in South Asia: Definitions and Priorities -- Towards a Reflexive South Asian Security Studies -- Regional Security and Paramount Powers: The British Raj and Independent India -- Security, State, and Democracy in Pakistan -- The Burden of Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Insecurity in Sri Lanka -- Indo-Pakistani Nuclear Relations After the Cold War -- Kashmir: The Roads Ahead1 -- Environmental Degradation and Security in South Asia -- Narcotic Drugs: Security Threat or Interest to South Asian States? -- Indian Security Planning in the 1990s: Learning to Live in a New World Order -- Regions, Regional Politics, and the Security of South Asia
Biography
"Marvin G. Weinbaum is director of the Program in South and West Asian Studies and professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Champaign. Chetan Kumar is a research associate of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois-Champaign."
