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This book focuses on the developments in post 2014 Afghanistan with
external military support from the United States and its North
Atlantic Treaty Organization allies. It discusses topical themes
such as the withdrawal of US troops and non-traditional security.
Owing to its geo-strategic location and mineral wealth, Afghanistan
has acquired significance in the inter-state politics of Asia as
well as world politics during the past decades. This book outlines
Afghanistan's efforts to build a stable and peaceful democratic
polity, with external military support from the United States and
its NATO allies. It also analyses the nation's development
initiatives with major powers such as India, the United States,
Russia and Germany. The volume: * brings to the fore ongoing
tensions within the Afghan polity and its continued impact on
Asian/world politics; * discusses topical themes such as withdrawal
of US troops and non-traditional security; and * presents
perspectives from scholars and experts from around the world,
including Afghans. This work will be useful to scholars and
researchers in political science, international relations,
sociology, area studies, and the interested general reader.
Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the
twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and
role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of
imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond
Euro-American perspectives, this book presents a comprehensive
study of Africa and its role in world politics. Africa in World
Affairs: * Closely examines the transition of Africa in its
colonial and post-colonial phases; * Explores the intellectual
history of modern Africa through liberation struggles, social
movements, leaders and thinkers; * Investigates the continent's
relationships with former colonial powers such as Britain, France
and Portugal; untangles complexities of French neo-colonialism and
sheds light on the role of the superpower, such as the USA and
major and rising powers like China and India; * Highlights complex
and wide-ranging diversities of the region, and the ways in which
it continues to negotiate with issues of modernity, racism and
globalisation. A core text on Africa and the world, this book will
be indispensable for students of African studies, politics and
international relations, and history. It will also be a must-read
for policymakers, diplomats and government think tanks.
Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the
twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and
role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of
imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation. Going beyond
Euro-American perspectives, this book presents a comprehensive
study of Africa and its role in world politics. Africa in World
Affairs: * Closely examines the transition of Africa in its
colonial and post-colonial phases; * Explores the intellectual
history of modern Africa through liberation struggles, social
movements, leaders and thinkers; * Investigates the continent's
relationships with former colonial powers such as Britain, France
and Portugal; untangles complexities of French neo-colonialism and
sheds light on the role of the superpower, such as the USA and
major and rising powers like China and India; * Highlights complex
and wide-ranging diversities of the region, and the ways in which
it continues to negotiate with issues of modernity, racism and
globalisation. A core text on Africa and the world, this book will
be indispensable for students of African studies, politics and
international relations, and history. It will also be a must-read
for policymakers, diplomats and government think tanks.
In the year of the fiftieth death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru,
this timely book has ventured to review Nehru's contribution in
shaping trajectories of political developments in pre and
post-independent India. In the process, it covers a wide canvas of
ideas, ideologies, personalities and events that were most
significant in Nehru's political career as a freedom fighter
(1920-1947) and the first Prime Minister of India (1947-1964). In
his relentlessly persuasive narrative, the author not merely argues
that Nehru was the tallest leader of independent India but he
places Nehru next only to his master, Mahatma Gandhi. On the one
hand, the author gives credit to Nehru for recasting Gandhian ideas
within the framework of modernity, while on the other hand, he is
conscious of the fact that Nehru parted company with Gandhi as a
modernizer and built foundations of heavy industry, constructed
large dams and chose to run Indian National Congress (INC) as an
umbrella party, even though Gandhi would have liked it to be
dissolved after independence. The author asserts that even though
Nehru's emancipatory project of development did take cognizance of
Marxist ideas, he was uncomfortable with dogmatic and doctrinaire
views of Indian communists who looked for inspiration from outside
to formulate their plan of action in India. Consequently, he chose
to oppose them in domestic politics. After observing all the
protocols of scholarship and going through the relevant primary
sources in minute details, the author has refrained from squeezing
Nehru's policies into any straitjacket schematic framework by
either dubbing them as idealistic or realistic. Instead, he has
explored complexities that shaped such policies in order to come to
terms with the making of modern India.
This unusual collection of essays dwells upon a wide variety of
themes that essentially reflect, overtly or subtly, on the
processes of nation building. As a result, the author traverses
like a gypsy in the world of ideas to allow his soul to express
itself before his readers. In this process, the book reveals
author's ever maturing understanding of a few memorable poems, the
role of inspiring leaders, metaphysical essences of life and
society, traumatic events and processes in history, the human quest
towards institution /nation building and the likely role of younger
generations in shaping India of tomorrow. A gypsy that is hiding
deep down in the author's mind continuously makes him restless
within the narrow confines of the know would and wandering in the
world of ideas appears to be an obvious outcome of his
restlessness. In the context of nation building the book sheds a
new light, with some personal touch , on the contributions of
leaders like Gandhi, Nehru, Tilak and Mandela. Subsequently it
moves on to grasp on essence of life through the teaching of Savta
Mali, a thirteenth century saint poet, with metaphysical depth,
fromMaharashtra. In addition to exploring the daunting tasks in
understanding and interpreting history, the book analyses traumatic
events and process in history like partition and erection of the
Berlin wall. While perceiving any trauma across time and space the
author unveils the significance and impact of the nation of
alienation in emerging and post industrial society by discussing a
moving poem of Kusumagraj in Marathi, on the one hand, and writings
of a few celebrated existentialist thinkers like Albert Camus, on
the other hand. After highlighting the global and anti-colonial
perspectives on education of J. Krishnamurti and Frantz Fanon,
respectively, the author handles themes related to institution and
nation building. He underlines the significance of duties, his
vision of India, challenges before younger generations amid growing
frustrations on account of mounting socio-economic inequalities,
the state of higher education in the globalising world and changing
requirements of foreign policy in the process of nation building.
The book ends with a semi-autobiographical essay that virtually
sketches a partial biography of two major educational institutes,
namely universities of Hyderabad and Allahabad. Owing to its varied
intellectual concerns and lucid style the book is eminently
readable. Every thinking and sensitive mind, especially students
literature, philosophy and social sciences would be benefitted by
reading it.
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