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Biden and Beyond: The United States Rethinks South Asia captures
the significant transitions unfolding in the US policy towards
South Asia. Developed across two administrations, led by Donald
Trump and Joe Biden, the US' South Asia policy has moved away from
more than four decades of focus on Afghanistan, especially after
the military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021, to now
viewing the region through the Indo-Pacific prism. The military
withdrawal has also undermined the US' long-standing strategic
partnership with Pakistan that was viewed as the frontline state in
dealing with the turmoil in Afghanistan. This has substantially
altered Washington's geopolitical perspective of the South Asian
subcontinent.Furthermore, the rising concerns in Washington on
China have seen the formulation of an Indo-Pacific strategy that
has elevated India to the top of US strategic priorities. The
deepening tensions between China and the US, as well as between
Beijing and Delhi, have set the stage for a new strategic
partnership between Washington and Delhi. Amidst Washington's
competition with Beijing, the Himalayan region girding the
underbelly of China has acquired an importance of its own. The
maritime perspective of the US has also raised the value of the
subcontinent's waters and provided an incentive for Washington to
turn new attention to the strategic islands of the Maldives and Sri
Lanka.Taken together, these factors presage a transformation in the
interaction between the US and the South Asian subcontinent in the
coming years. This book, hence, brings into the conversation these
recent changes and sheds new light on contemporary US-South Asia
relations.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Advanced Wind Turbines
Teik-Cheng Lim, Palanisamy Mohan Kumar, Sivalingam Krishnamoorthi
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R4,463
Discovery Miles 44 630
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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How can non-windy places make use of wind power for electricity
generation? Advanced Wind Turbines provides detailed information
that is of great practical importance to wind turbine practitioners
from small and congested city-states, where the lack of vast land
and high wind speed render the conventional wind turbine less
effective. It introduces the non-conventional Darrieus and Savonius
wind turbines, as well as their hybrid version, covering basic
concepts, computational modelling and recent advances in
experimental optimization.What about those who prefer wind turbines
in faraway oceans to take advantage of high wind speed, or who come
from countries with a lack of shallow seabed? Floating offshore
wind turbines are also discussed, and the dynamics of floating
vis-Ã -vis grounded wind turbines are thoroughly expounded
upon to aid practitioners in achieving more accurate performance
modelling. This is a work of paramount usefulness for areas which
have long wanted to jump on the renewable energy bandwagon, but
have thus far been hampered by their natural geographical
limitations.
The book's primary purpose is to understand the economic, social,
and political impact of financial crimes and earning management on
the Indian national economy. The book is divided into four parts
that focus on different sectors which lead to financial crimes in a
country: Financial crimes White Collar Crimes Cybercrimes Creative
Accounting Investigating topics such as drug mafia, money
laundering, online fraud, accounting fraud, and more, the
comprehensive investigation of different aspects of financial
crimes, this book offers insight into its central problems and how
they can be controlled. It is ideal for financial crime
researchers.
Although China has been an important external actor in South Asia
since the middle of the last century, it is only in the 21st
century that China became a decisive influence on the region's
evolution. The emergence of China as the world's second largest
economy had naturally made it the largest trading partner for most
of the South Asian countries. China's rapid military modernisation,
facilitated by its expansive economic growth, had a major impact on
the region's security politics. China's political and diplomatic
weight is now visible sharply not only in the economic, foreign and
security policies of the South Asian nations but also in their
domestic politics.Meanwhile, India has emerged, albeit at a slower
pace than China, as a major power over the last two decades. Like
Beijing, New Delhi's geopolitical aspirations too have steadily
risen during that period. This has set the stage for growing
strategic friction between the India and China. The friction has
enveloped many regional and global domains, but its greatest
expression has been in the shared South Asian neighbourhood. India
is determined to sustain its traditional primacy in the region and
China is determined to consolidate its growing influence in South
Asia. The sharpening friction has also begun to intersect with the
growing great power tensions, especially between the United States
and China. Many elements of these new dynamic have drawn academic
engagement, in particular from the major power perspectives.
However, the voices of the smaller South Asian nations have not
been sufficiently heard or analysed. This volume seeks to address
that major gap in the current discourse on the Indian subcontinent
and its changing role in great power politics.This volume brings
multiple regional voices to assess how the various South Asian
nations are dealing with the growing rivalry between India and
China. Many of the chapters in this volume were initially published
as shorter essays by the Institute of South Asian Studies in its
South Asia Discussion Papers series in 2020. Those essays have been
updated and expanded in this volume. Additional contributions have
also been commissioned to enrich the special perspectives that this
volume presents.
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