Thirty Years of SAARC

Society, Culture and Development
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-93-5388-179-5
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

This book traces economic and political issues through SAARC’s thirty-year journey.

Topical and well-researched, this collection provides a comprehensive assessment of SAARC and provides policy directives for the future. The book points out the issues and constraints that have hindered regional cooperation in South Asia. It establishes that despite being democracies, there has been little effort by member nations to promote regional cooperation in the public domain.

It stresses that in view of the increased role that countries wish to play in globalisation, economic cooperation is the way forward. The book further argues that political will is the pivot on which the prospect of regional cooperation revolves.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Rajiv

Goyal, Omita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Karan Singh
Preface - Omita Goyal
Introduction: Towards New Beginnings in South Asia - Rajiv Kumar
Reviewing Regional Cooperation in South Asia - Eric Gonsalves
Afghanistan, SAARC and the Road Ahead - Haroun Mir and Habib Wardak
Changing Face: The Trials and Fortunes of Regional Cooperation Under SAARC - Saman Kelegama
SAARC and Economic Cooperation - Amit Batra
South Asia’s Mounting Ecological Challenge: Regional Cooperation is the Only Answer - Shyam Saran
South Asian Cooperation: Towards a Humane World - Akmal Hussain
The Significance of SAARC for Bhutan - Rajesh Kharat
Peace, Security and Threats: A Balance Sheet - Nihal Rodrigo
Politics in Pakistan Today: The Challenge of Securing Democracy - Rasul Bakhsh Rais
Nepal’s Policy Towards SAARC - Sangeeta Thapliyal
Bangladesh in SAARC: Identity Issues and Perspectives - Sanjay K Bhardwaj
Nepal, SAARC and Southasia - Kanak Mani Dixit
India, Pakistan and ‘Southasia’ - Beena Sarwar
Anxieties of SAARC: An Experiential Reading through South Asian University - Sasanka Perera
Developing a Regional Human Rights Mechanism - Aishath Velezinee
South Asian Regionalism: A People’s Movement Perspective - Rakhi Sehgal
Sewa’s Sister-to-Sister Initiative for Peace and Work - Reema Nanavaty
Trafficking and Vulnerabilities of Children and Women: An Analysis - Anuradha Koirala
South Asian Literatures: Beyond Borders, across Boundaries - Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal
Speaking the Unspeakable or the Limits of Representability - Firdous Azim
A Broken Shard: Sri Lankan Writing in English - Ashok Ferrey
Human Rights Beyond the State: Generating Spaces for Rights in Society - Afsan Chowdhury, Zerrin Afza, Nabaleswar Dewan
Diversity Management in SAARC Countries - Faizan Mustafa

Über Autor(innen)

Kumar, Rajiv
RAJIV KUMAR is Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Chancellor, Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics (GIPE), Pune. He is an International Board Member of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre, Riyadh, and the Government of India Nominee on Board of Governors of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta. He is a government nominee on the Central Board of the State Bank of India. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and the Institute of Human Development, New Delhi.

Goyal, Omita
Omita Goyal is presently Chief Editor of the IIC Quarterly, the Journal of the India International Centre. She started her career in the voluntary sector with the Indian Social Institute, New Delhi. Shortly thereafter she moved into academic publishing where she has spent over 27 years. She worked at SAGE Publications India Pvt Limited for 20 years, leaving as General Manager. Omita took time off to work as a freelance editor for SAGE and other institutions such as The World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP, Voluntary Health Association of India, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, WHO, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague and TERI. In 2005, she was invited by Taylor and Francis to start a social science programme under their social science and humanities imprint, Routledge, as Publishing Director.