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The region of the Middle East is beset with a structural crisis of
which particular crises confronting the component countries happen
to be merely subsets. The real questions revolve round the issue of
how long can the present dispensations of power and social
structures in the region forged in the twentieth century (first
half or second) can last in the twenty-first, when they no longer
reflect the realities on the ground. This volume aims to look at
some of the issues to see how the faultlines in the region appear
in 2020 to both those in the region, and those outside it. The
volume limits itself to only Levant and the Gulf and looks at the
tensions within and policies (both foreign and domestic) of some of
the key regional players which have regional repercussions. It also
looks at the policies of some of the global players operating in
the region that have bearing on the regional faultlines. Print
edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal,
Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with
political issues at every level. These issues range from the
social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the
use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In
addition, some sports are positioned and promoted as national
events both in public opinion and in the media. This book seeks to
explore some aspects of the notion of power in sport in south Asia
and among south Asians abroad. The first two chapters deal with the
internal societal dimensions of the politics of sport; the next
three relate to the politics inside the sporting world in the
subcontinent and its bridge with the broader arena of the society
through the media, while the last five relate to the use of sports
in statecraft, consensus building and international politics. This
book was based on two special issues of the International Journal
of the History of Sport.
The book examines the contours of relationship between India and
the Middle East, before the political frontiers of the both the
regions were fashioned in the middle of the twentieth century.
Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the
Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka
The present volume comes out of a conference held by the IFPS in
collaboration with CPWAS at Calcutta University in March 2012. The
volume comprises of eight essays highlighting on various approaches
to the question of instability in India's western neighbourhood,
and what it could mean for India. The issues covered include the
domestic dynamics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, the extent to which
these have a bearing on the foreign policy of the Government of
India, and the economic and social cost extracted by the aura of
instability that has come to characterise the neighbourhood.
The ongoing political turmoil in the Middle East as a whole would
seem to be essentially a contest between the minimalist and
maximalist positions on popular sovereignty: should power merely
come from, and be exercised in the name of, the people? Or, should
those in power be fully accountable to the people? The dilemma
warrants a closer look. The present volume comes out of an
international conference held in Calcutta, India organised by the
Institute of Foreign Policy Studies and the Centre for Pakistan and
West Asian Studies, University of Calcutta in March 2013. This
volume aims not at a definitive analysis of why what happened did
happen; it aims instead at getting a sense of what was actually
happening, and what is at issue.
The Arab Spring, widely perceived as a momentous event in West
Asia, has evoked a persistent flow of interpretation and analysis
by academic experts and policy-makers since the upheaval first
broke out in December 2010 and the pace of events suggests the flow
of analysis on this issue will continue. Like all great social
upheavals, the Arab Spring was long-drawn-out in its realisation
and born of many factors that are intertwined. It could have
occurred any time during the course of the last two or three
decades but each passing year brought to the forefront new
developments that made it that much more imminent. Economic
problems, social problems, political problems, juridical problems
and diplomatic problems combined to contribute to an uncompromising
sense of grievance across the Arab world that ultimately manifested
itself in the Arab spring and winter of 2011. This volume comes out
of a conference organised by the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute
of Asian Studies, in collaboration with Institute of Foreign Policy
Studies and Centre of Pakistan and West Asian Studies, in which an
attempt was made to discuss these issues threadbare.
The Foreign Policy of India, at least up to the end of the Cold
War, has often been charged with an inward-looking South Asian
orientation, a deadening preoccupation with the immediate
neighbourhood, and a sort of tunnel vision. Such allegations have
considerable substance when pertaining to the region of the Middle
East, with the peoples of which Indian people have enjoyed a
relationship that predates the present framework of nations-states
literally by millennia. At a time when the Indian economy seems to
be going through a stellar rise, it is useful for India to develop
a policy of engagement with the Middle East. Unlike most other
countries India actually has human ties with the region that very
few other peoples have-ties that were forged by generations of
people travelling between India and the Middle East, settling down
in each other's lands before the borders became hard. Some
observers have argued that the government of India needs develop a
more dynamic policy towards the region because of the large number
of Indians working in the petroleum economies-from the Gulf states
right down to Libya. The present volume comes out of a conference
organised by the Institute of Foreign Policy Studies in association
with the Centre for Pakistan and West Asia Studies, Calcutta
University in the month of February 2011, as the Arab Spring was
beginning to stir the region. It also marked the completion of two
decades of India's economic liberalisation as well as foreign
policy reorientation. The volume primarily means to address (as did
the conference) the terms of India's re-orientation of policy
towards the region, as also the various dynamics that condition
such engagement.
Behind the spectacle of entertainment, sport is a subject with
political issues at every level. These issues range from the
social, with divisions created along gender and class lines, to the
use of sport to pursue diplomatic and statecraft goals. In
addition, some sports are positioned and promoted as national
events both in public opinion and in the media.
This book seeks to explore some aspects of the notion of power
in sport in south Asia and among south Asians abroad. The first two
chapters deal with the internal societal dimensions of the politics
of sport; the next threearelate to the politics inside the sporting
world in the subcontinent and its bridge with the broader arena of
the society through the media, while the last fivearelate to the
use of sports in statecraft, consensus building and international
politics.
This book was based on two special issues of the International
Journal of the History of Sport."
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