Description
India’s neighbourhood has witnessed crucial developments in the last decade: complex security challenges, looming economic crises, socio-political unrest, border clashes, China’s expanding engagement, India’s rising profile, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last eight years, India has advocated the “Neighbourhood First” policy which ‘focuses on creating mutually beneficial, people-oriented, regional frameworks for stability and prosperity’. India’s neighbourhood presents complex dynamics, and the challenges demand attention and serious consideration in its policy options. The versatile neighbourhood also offers opportunities for India to extend cooperation at the regional level and address common strategic, economic, social and security concerns.
India’s Neighbourhood: Challenges and Opportunities with insights of leading experts is a timely contribution to academia, practitioners, and keen readers. The book fills a critical void in the domain of neighbourhood studies and comprehensively analyses India’s bilateral relations with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Iran, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The book assesses the traditional security challenges like terrorism, examines crucial non-traditional security issues (hydro-politics and climate change), scans the emerging dynamics of rare earth elements and evaluates the wider possibilities of India’s role in stirring regional cooperation in these key areas.
Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Table of Contents
Preface
Editor and Contributors
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Anil Chopra
1. India-China: Competition or Confrontation
Anil Chopra
2. India-Pakistan Relations: Dynamics Post Abrogation of Article 370
Shalini Chawla
3. India-Afghanistan Strategic Relations in the Past Three Decades: Post-Cold War, Post 9/11, and Post US Exit
Hashim Wahdatyar
4. India-Bangladesh: Convergence of Interests
Sreeradha Datta
5. India-Sri Lanka Relations: Contemporary Challenges and Prospects
Samatha Mallempati
6. India-Maldives: The Revitalisation of Bilateral Relations
Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury
7. India-Bhutan Relations: Present Trajectories and Future Possibilities
Medha Bisht
8. The India-Myanmar Affair: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Angshuman Choudhury
9. Harnessing the Potential of India-Nepal Relations: Challenges and Prospects
Pramod Jaiswal
10. India and Iran in the Changing West Asian Regional Order
Anu Sharma
11. Hydrodynamics in South Asia
Uttam Kumar Sinha
12. India, South Asia, and Climate Change Cooperation: Challenges and Opportunities
Dhanasree Jayaram and Priyanka Jaiswal
13. Trends in Terrorism in India’s Neighbourhood
Kriti M. Shah
14. Rare Earth Elements and India’s Neighbourhood
Neha Mishra
Index
