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Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the
early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged
as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international
economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is
becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic
calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other
growing economies, and is the only Asian country with the heft to
counterbalance China. Indeed, so much is India defined
internationally by its economic performance (and challenges) that
other dimensions of its internal situation, notably relevant to
security, and of its foreign policy have been relatively neglected
in the existing literature. This handbook presents an innovative,
high profile volume, providing an authoritative and accessible
examination and critique of Indian foreign policy. The handbook
brings together essays from a global team of leading experts in the
field to provide a comprehensive study of the various dimensions of
Indian foreign policy.
Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist insurgency, the
'People's War', Nepal has struggled with the difficult transition
from war to peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from an
exclusionary and centralized state to a more inclusive and federal
one. The present volume, drawing on both international and Nepali
scholars and leading practitioners, analyzes the context, dynamics
and key players shaping Nepal's ongoing peace process. While the
peace process is largely domestically driven, it has been
accompanied by wide-ranging international involvement, including
initiatives in peacemaking by NGOs, the United Nations and India,
which, throughout the process, wielded considerable political
influence; significant investments by international donors; and the
deployment of a Security Council-mandated UN field mission. This
book shines a light on the limits, opportunities and challenges of
international efforts to assist Nepal in its quest for peace and
stability and offers valuable lessons for similar endeavors
elsewhere.
India today looms large globally, where it hardly loomed at all
twenty years ago. It is likely to be a key global actor throughout
the twenty-first century and could well emerge soon as one of the
top five global powers. Does the Elephant Dance? seeks to survey
the main features of Indian foreign policy. It identifies elements
of Indian history relevant to the topic; examines the role therein
of domestic politics and internal and external security challenges,
and of domestic and international economic factors; and in
successive chapters delves into the specifics of India's policy
within its South Asian neighbourhood, and with respect to China,
the USA, West Asia (the Middle East), East Asia, Europe and Russia,
and multilateral diplomacy. It also touches on Indian ties to
Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. India's "soft power",
the role of migration in its policy, and other cross-cutting issues
are analyzed, as is the role and approach of several categories of
foreign policy actors in India. Substantive conclusions close out
the volume, and touch, inter alia, on policies India may want or
need to change in its quest for international stature.
The Japan-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPPA) of 2018 is the
most far-reaching 'megaregional' economic agreement in force, with
several major countries beyond its eleven negotiating countries
also interested. Still bearing the stamp of the original US
involvement before the Trump-era reversal, TPP is the first
instance of 'megaregulation': a demanding combination of
inter-state economic ordering and national regulatory governance on
a highly ambitious substantive and trans-regional scale. Its text
and ambition have influenced other negotiations ranging from the
Japan-EU Agreement (JEEPA) and the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement
(USMCA) to the projected Pan-Asian Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership (RCEP). This book provides an extensive analysis of TPP
as a megaregulatory project for channelling and managing new
pressures of globalization, and of core critical arguments made
against economic megaregulation from standpoints of development,
inequality, labour rights, environmental interests, corporate
capture, and elite governance. Specialized chapters cover supply
chains, digital economy, trade facilitation, intellectual property,
currency levels, competition and state-owned enterprises,
government procurement, investment, prescriptions for national
regulation, and the TPP institutions. Country studies include
detailed analyses of TPP-related politics and approaches in Japan,
Mexico, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Contributors
include leading practitioners and scholars in law, economics, and
political science. At a time when the WTO and other global-scale
institutions are struggling with economic nationalism and
geopolitics, and bilateral and regional agreements are pressed by
public disagreement and incompatibility with digital and capital
and value chain flows, the megaregional ambition of TPP is
increasingly important as a precedent requiring the close scrutiny
this book presents.
Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary
combines primary materials with expert commentary demonstrating the
interaction between law and practice in the UN organization, as
well as the possibilities and limitations of multilateral
institutions in general. Each chapter begins with a short
introductory essay describing how the documents that ensue
illustrate a set of legal, institutional, and political issues
relevant to the practice of diplomacy and the development of public
international law through the United Nations. Each chapter also
includes questions to guide discussion of the primary materials,
and a brief bibliography to facilitate further research on the
subject. This second edition addresses the most challenging issues
confronting the United Nations and the global community today, from
terrorism to climate change, from poverty to nuclear proliferation.
New features include hypothetical fact scenarios to test the
understanding of concepts in each chapter. This edition contains
expanded author commentary, while maintaining the focus on primary
materials. Such materials enable a realistic presentation of the
work of international diplomacy: the negotiation, interpretation
and application of such texts are an important part of what
actually takes place at the United Nations and other international
organizations. This work is ideal for courses on the United Nations
or International Organizations, taught in both law and
international relations programs.
Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist insurgency, the
People's War, Nepal has struggled with the difficult transition
from war to peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from an
exclusionary and centralized state to a more inclusive and federal
one. The present volume, drawing on both international and Nepali
scholars and leading practitioners, analyzes the context, dynamics,
and key players shaping Nepal's ongoing peace process. While the
peace process is largely domestically driven, it has been
accompanied by wide-ranging international involvement, including
initiatives in peacemaking by NGOs, the United Nations, and India,
which, throughout the process, wielded considerable political
influence; significant investments by international donors; and the
deployment of a Security Council-mandated UN field mission. This
book shines a light on the limits, opportunities, and challenges of
international efforts to assist Nepal in its quest for peace and
stability and offers valuable lessons for similar endeavors
elsewhere."
Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the
early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged
as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international
economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is
becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic
calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other
growing economies, and is the only Asian country with the heft to
counterbalance China. Indeed, so much is India defined
internationally by its economic performance (and challenges) that
other dimensions of its internal situation, notably relevant to
security, and of its foreign policy have been relatively neglected
in the existing literature. This handbook presents an innovative,
high profile volume, providing an authoritative and accessible
examination and critique of Indian foreign policy. The handbook
brings together essays from a global team of leading experts in the
field to provide a comprehensive study of the various dimensions of
Indian foreign policy.
India today looms large globally, where it hardly loomed at all
twenty years ago. It is likely to be a key global actor throughout
the twenty-first century and could well emerge soon as one of the
top five global powers. Does the Elephant Dance? seeks to survey
the main features of Indian foreign policy. It identifies elements
of Indian history relevant to the topic; examines the role therein
of domestic politics and internal and external security challenges,
and of domestic and international economic factors; and in
successive chapters delves into the specifics of India's policy
within its South Asian neighbourhood, and with respect to China,
the USA, West Asia (the Middle East), East Asia, Europe and Russia,
and multilateral diplomacy. It also touches on Indian ties to
Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. India's "soft power",
the role of migration in its policy, and other cross-cutting issues
are analyzed, as is the role and approach of several categories of
foreign policy actors in India. Substantive conclusions close out
the volume, and touch, inter alia, on the absence of an organizing
framework for Indian foreign policy.
Iraq has dominated international headlines in recent years, but its
controversial role in international affairs goes back much further.
The key arena for these power politics over Iraq has been the
United Nations Security Council. Spanning the last quarter
century,The International Struggle over Iraq examines the impact
the United Nations Security Council has had on Iraq - and Iraq's
impact on the Security Council. The story is a fascinating one.
Beginning in 1980, in the crucible of the Iran-Iraq War, the
Council found a common voice as a peacemaker after the divisions of
the cold war. That peacemaking role was cemented when a UN-mandated
force expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1991, offering a glimpse
of a new role for the UN in the 'New World Order'. But
unilateralism soon set in, as the Security Council struggled under
the weight and bureaucratic demands of its changing identity. The
Security Council gradually abandoned its traditional political and
military tools for the legal-regulatory approach, but was unable to
bridge the gap between those who believed allegations of Iraqi
possession of weapons of mass destruction and those who didn't.
Growing paralysis led eventually to deadlock in the Council in
2002, with the result that it was sidelined during the 2003
Coalition invasion. This relegation, when combined with the loss of
some of its best and brightest in a massive truck bomb in Iraq
later that year, precipitated a deep crisis of confidence. The
future role of the UN Security Council has now, once again, become
uncertain. The paperback edition contains a substantial new preface
covering recent developments. Drawing on the author's unparalleled
access to UN insiders, this volume offers radical new insights into
one of the most persistent crises in international affairs, and the
different roles the world's central peace-making forum has played
in it.
Law and Practice of the United Nations: Documents and Commentary
combines primary materials with expert commentary demonstrating the
interaction between law and practice in the UN organization, as
well as the possibilities and limitations of multilateral
institutions in general. Each chapter begins with a short
introductory essay describing how the documents that ensue
illustrate a set of legal, institutional, and political issues
relevant to the practice of diplomacy and the development of public
international law through the United Nations. Each chapter also
includes questions to guide discussion of the primary materials,
and a brief bibliography to facilitate further research on the
subject. This second edition addresses the most challenging issues
confronting the United Nations and the global community today, from
terrorism to climate change, from poverty to nuclear proliferation.
New features include hypothetical fact scenarios to test the
understanding of concepts in each chapter. This edition contains
expanded author commentary, while maintaining the focus on primary
materials. Such materials enable a realistic presentation of the
work of international diplomacy: the negotiation, interpretation
and application of such texts are an important part of what
actually takes place at the United Nations and other international
organizations. This work is ideal for courses on the United Nations
or International Organizations, taught in both law and
international relations programs.
Thinking on development informs and inspires the actions of people,
organizations, and states in their continuous effort to invent a
better world. This volume examines the ideas behind development:
their origins, how they have changed and spread over time, and how
they may evolve over the coming decades. It also examines how the
real-life experiences of different countries and organizations have
been inspired by, and contributed to, thinking on development. The
extent to which development 'works' depends in part on particular
local, historical, or institutional contexts. General policy
prescriptions fail when the necessary conditions that make them
work are either absent, ignored, or poorly understood. There is a
need to grasp how people understand their own development
experience. If the countries of the world are varied in every way,
from their initial conditions to the degree of their openness to
outside money and influence, and success is not centred in any one
group, it stands to reason that there cannot be a single recipe for
development. Each chapter provides an analytical survey of thinking
about development that highlights debates and takes into account
critical perspectives. It includes contributions from scholars and
practitioners from the global North and the global South, spanning
at least two generations and multiple disciplines. It will be a key
reference on the concepts and theories of development - their
origins, evolution, and trajectories - and act as a resource for
scholars, graduate students, and practitioners.
Thinking on development informs and inspires the actions of people,
organizations, and states in their continuous effort to invent a
better world. This volume examines the ideas behind development:
their origins, how they have changed and spread over time, and how
they may evolve over the coming decades. It also examines how the
real-life experiences of different countries and organizations have
been inspired by, and contributed to, thinking on development. The
extent to which development 'works' depends in part on particular
local, historical, or institutional contexts. General policy
prescriptions fail when the necessary conditions that make them
work are either absent, ignored, or poorly understood. There is a
need to grasp how people understand their own development
experience. If the countries of the world are varied in every way,
from their initial conditions to the degree of their openness to
outside money and influence, and success is not centred in any one
group, it stands to reason that there cannot be a single recipe for
development. Each chapter provides an analytical survey of thinking
about development that highlights debates and takes into account
critical perspectives. It includes contributions from scholars and
practitioners from the global North and the global South, spanning
at least two generations and multiple disciplines. It will be a key
reference on the concepts and theories of development - their
origins, evolution, and trajectories - and act as a resource for
scholars, graduate students, and practitioners.
Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the
Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent
in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the
setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific's share of the
world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30
per cent between 1970 and 2017 and is projected to account for half
of global GDP by 2050. With South East and South Asia also growing
rapidly, with over half the world's population and three of the
world's five largest economies, Asia is soon poised to home half of
the world's middle class - a class that is both the driver and the
product of higher education. The quality of a country's system of
higher education may be seen both as a gauge of its current level
of national development as well as of its future economic
prospects. It is therefore natural that the putative "Asian
Century" should generate interest in the region's higher education
systems which, on the one hand, share common characteristics-a
fixation with credentials and engineering, high technology
(especially among male students), and business degrees-while at the
same time are also highly differentiated, not only across countries
but also within. As such, a better understanding of higher
education achievements, failings, potential, and structural
limitations in the Asia-Pacific Region is imperative. This handbook
presents a number of significant country case-studies and documents
cross-cutting trends relating to, among other things: the trilemma
faced by governments juggling competing claims of access,
accessible cost, and quality; the balance between teaching and
research; the links between labour markets (demand) and higher
education (supply); preferred fields of study and their
consequences; the rise of the research university in Asia; the lure
of institutions of international reputation within the region; new
education technologies and their effects; and, trends in government
policy within the wider region and sub-regions.
The United Nations is a vital part of the international order. Yet
this book argues that the greatest contribution of the UN is not
what it has achieved (improvements in health and economic
development, for example) or avoided (global war, say, or the use
of weapons of mass destruction). It is, instead, the process
through which the UN has transformed the structure of international
law to expand the range and depth of subjects covered by treaties.
This handbook offers the first sustained analysis of the UN as a
forum in which and an institution through which treaties are
negotiated and implemented. Chapters are written by authors from
different fields, including academics and practitioners; lawyers
and specialists from other social sciences (international
relations, history, and science); professionals with an established
reputation in the field; younger researchers and diplomats involved
in the negotiation of multilateral treaties; and scholars with a
broader view on the issues involved. The volume thus provides
unique insights into UN treaty-making. Through the thematic and
technical parts, it also offers a lens through which to view
challenges lying ahead and the possibilities and limitations of
this understudied aspect of international law and relations.
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