Sixteen years after the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established, the organization remains more an illusion than an effective organization promoting regional integration. There have been eleventh SAARC summits, innumerable meetings of its committees and establishment of some SAARC institutions. Yet, in reality it has failed to address and develop any meaningful cooperation among nations that would begin to deal with the innumerable problems that keep the region hindered in poverty, disease, deprivation, unemployment, and foreign aid dependency. By accounts of...