Description
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the international relations of South Asia.
South Asia as a region is increasingly assuming greater significance in global politics for a host of compelling reasons. This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of perspectives on the international politics of South Asia, and it it covers an extensive range of issues spanning from inter-state wars to migration in the region. Each contribution provides a careful discussion of the four major theoretical approaches to the study of international politics: Realism, Constructivism, Liberalism, and Critical Theory. In turn, the chapters discuss the relevance of each approach to the issue area addressed in the book. The volume offers coverage of the key issues under four thematic sections:
- Theoretical Approaches to the Study of the International Relations of South Asia
- Traditional and Emerging Security Issues in South Asia
- The International Relations of South Asia
- Cross-cutting Regional Issues
Further, every effort has been made in the chapters to discuss the origins, evolution and future direction of each issue.
This book will be of much interest to students of South Asian politics, human security, regional security, and International Relations in general.
Table of Contents
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
