South Asia Approaches the Millennium: Reexamining National Security

ISBN-13: 9780367303433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 245 str.

Marvin G. Weinbaum; Chetan Kumar

Opis

This volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding South Asia's precarious security, exploring narcotics trafficking for security in the region and providing insights into the emerging significance of new regional identities and relations in the next millennium.

Spis treści

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