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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.
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.
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.
The nature and scope of UN Security Council decisions -
significantly changed in the post-Cold War era - have enormous
implications for the conduct of foreign policy. The UN Security
Council offers a comprehensive view of the council both internally
and as a key player in world politics. Focusing on the evolution of
the council's treatment of key issues, the authors discuss new
concerns that must be accommodated in the decisionmaking process,
the challenges of enforcement, and shifting personal and
institutional factors. Case studies complement the rich thematic
chapters. The book sheds much-needed light on the central events
and trends of the past decade and their critical importance for the
future role of the council and the UN in the sphere of
international security.
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."
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