New South Asian Security: Six Core Relations Underpinning Regional Security
Chris Ogden
Price
1710
ISBN
9788125062615
Language
English
Pages
196
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2016
Territorial Rights
World
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

New South Asian Security recasts the interpretation of security and international relations in South Asia. Moving away from the traditional emphasis on India–Pakistan relations, this volume focuses on the region’s unique confluence of two of the international system’s rising great powers (China and India), and two of its failing and most unstable states (Pakistan and Afghanistan). It also acknowledges that South Asian security rests upon the interaction between these four important states.

The volume also highlights the region’s present status as the fulcrum of contemporary dynamics of international relations and global trends (from rising powers and an Asian Century, to international terrorism, nuclear proliferation and energy security threats). These factors make South Asian security significant to the world, and highlight its relevance to the nature (and future) of the international system.

It explicitly:

brings Afghanistan and China into the study of South Asian relations;

confirms the relevance of big powers in South Asia to regional/global politics;

compares the core norms underpinning bilateral relations among its four critical states; and

constructs a collective understanding of the strategic interests driving regional security.

It thus both broadens and redefines our sense of South Asia, while underscoring the increased need for regional understandings concerning its security and stability, in the context of the planned withdrawal of external actors from Afghanistan.

This book will be indispensable for students and scholars of international relations, strategic studies, and peace and conflict studies. 

Chris Ogden is Senior Lecturer in Asian Security at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, the UK.

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Recasting South Asian Security

Chris Ogden

  • India–China Relations: Norms, Perceptions and Geo-politics
    David Scott
  • Torbor: Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Cousin Rivalry
    Michael Semple
  • Norms, Identity and Discourse in India–Pakistan’s Security Relations
    Runa Das
  • China and Afghanistan: Challenges and Opportunities
    Jingdong Yuan
  • Pakistan, China, Security and Stability in South Asia
    Andrew Small
  • Afghanistan–India Relations: Normative Sources of Bilateral Ties
    Avinash Paliwal and Harsh V. Pant
  • Conclusions: Shared Regional Values and Trajectories
    Chris Ogden

Bibliography

Notes on the Contributors

Index

1. The Reading Room- The Hindu, New Delhi, 26th June 2016
2. The Statesman-New Delhi, 7th August 2016
3. Military in Foreign Policy
Mention in The Hindu, November 2016
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