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A comprehensive study focusing on emerging new multilateralism in
the Indo-Pacific.
Asian economic development and environmental consequences are not
only crucial for the wellbeing of the people, but are of great
relevance for the global economy. The ongoing intense debate on
carbon emission mitigating strategies for reducing the impact of
environmental consequences has undermined the principle of equity
and put a question mark on the sustainability of the development
process of the most dynamic Asian economies. This volume explores
fresh perspectives on the issues of wellbeing, Asian economic
development and environmental concerns. The book is organised along
six themes: issues in sustainability of Asian agriculture;
ecological concerns in theory and practice; core themes in economic
development; resource management and policy alternatives;
discrimination and socio-economic equity in development; and
peasant distress and sustainability of cotton economy. The articles
are based on unique quantitative data and a rigorous analytical
framework for examining policies for an equitable economic and
environmental international regime.
This volume seeks to examine the evolving contours of Asian
multilateralism through emerging China and how it is likely to
impact on the growth trajectories of Asian countries. From this
perspective, it explores the prospects for 'partnership' in Asia,
especially in terms of China's engagement with its principal Asian
neighbours, especially India. A substantial part of the volume is
devoted to debating China-India relations, highlighting their
mutual stakes through their economic and security cooperation as
well as their engagement with other countries and regional forums.
The book furthers the understanding of the rise of China from an
Indian perspective while simultaneously locating China's rise in
the economic dynamics of an emerging Asia. The volume offers
illuminating viewpoints, analyses and insights from multiple
perspectives, mixed with academic rigour and up-to-date
information. It will be of interest to those engaged in economics,
politics, trade relations, Indo-China relations, foreign policy,
area studies, public policy, and strategic studies.
This volume seeks to examine the evolving contours of Asian
multilateralism through emerging China and how it is likely to
impact on the growth trajectories of Asian countries. From this
perspective, it explores the prospects for 'partnership' in Asia,
especially in terms of China's engagement with its principal Asian
neighbours, especially India. A substantial part of the volume is
devoted to debating China-India relations, highlighting their
mutual stakes through their economic and security cooperation as
well as their engagement with other countries and regional forums.
The book furthers the understanding of the rise of China from an
Indian perspective while simultaneously locating China's rise in
the economic dynamics of an emerging Asia. The volume offers
illuminating viewpoints, analyses and insights from multiple
perspectives, mixed with academic rigour and up-to-date
information. It will be of interest to those engaged in economics,
politics, trade relations, Indo-China relations, foreign policy,
area studies, public policy, and strategic studies.
Asian economic development and environmental consequences are not
only crucial for the wellbeing of the people, but are of great
relevance for the global economy. The ongoing intense debate on
carbon emission mitigating strategies for reducing the impact of
environmental consequences has undermined the principle of equity
and put a question mark on the sustainability of the development
process of the most dynamic Asian economies. This volume explores
fresh perspectives on the issues of wellbeing, Asian economic
development and environmental concerns. The book is organised along
six themes: issues in sustainability of Asian agriculture;
ecological concerns in theory and practice; core themes in economic
development; resource management and policy alternatives;
discrimination and socio-economic equity in development; and
peasant distress and sustainability of cotton economy. The articles
are based on unique quantitative data and a rigorous analytical
framework for examining policies for an equitable economic and
environmental international regime.
The book emanates from the geopolitical and geo-economic churning
and transformations set in motion by the unprecedented economic
rise of China resulting in its expanding political influence across
the region and the world. In both the economic and the security
realms, the United States and China alike are increasingly seen
contesting in shaping the Indo-Pacific regional order to their own
advantage. This book unfolds the contours and dimensions of
China’s responses to various multilateral initiatives of the US
and its friends and allies like Japan, Australia, and India and, to
some extent, even ASEAN. While China’s medium-term strategy
envisages a non-hostile external environment in order to focus on
domestic priorities; reducing dependence of littoral nations of the
Indo-Pacific region on America while increasing their engagement
and dependence on China. China's expanding reach and influence
overseas has resulted in US-led initiatives being China-focused
inviting a response from China where adverse reactions have become
increasingly palpable.
The book emanates from the geopolitical and geo-economic churning
and transformations set in motion by the unprecedented economic
rise of China resulting in its expanding political influence across
the region and the world. In both the economic and the security
realms, the United States and China alike are increasingly seen
contesting in shaping the Indo-Pacific regional order to their own
advantage. This book unfolds the contours and dimensions of China's
responses to various multilateral initiatives of the US and its
friends and allies like Japan, Australia, and India and, to some
extent, even ASEAN. While China's medium-term strategy envisages a
non-hostile external environment in order to focus on domestic
priorities; reducing dependence of littoral nations of the
Indo-Pacific region on America while increasing their engagement
and dependence on China. China's expanding reach and influence
overseas has resulted in US-led initiatives being China-focused
inviting a response from China where adverse reactions have become
increasingly palpable.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the close cultural links
between India and Vietnam. It discusses the issues of trade
negotiations under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership
(RCEP) and the Indo-Pacific construct. Issues such as strengthening
the economic partnership, contemporary development challenges posed
by the COVID-19 pandemic, including weakening supply chains, and
geo-strategic tensions are explored in this book. It enriches
understanding of the potential of the two countries to develop as
manufacturing hubs for the region and beyond. Given the more
aggressive posturing by China in 2020, the concluding chapter
includes the policy prescriptions with a futuristic vision, for
India and Vietnam to catalyze their strategic and bilateral
partnership. Well researched and analytical, the book draws
extensively from several interviews of experts, diplomats,
journalists, businesspersons, and members of the diaspora. It is a
must read for students, researchers, think tanks, area study
centers, and all institutions engaged in Asian studies,
encompassing narratives extending from the developmental to
political, from the bilateral to the multilateral and from the
geo-economic to the geo-strategic.
In a world of unprecedented disruption and market turbulence,
business transformation revolves around the need to generate new
values, unlock new opportunities, drive new growth, and deliver new
efficiencies.The world is witnessing volatility in the environment,
in technology, in the economy and in society. 'Business as usual'
is no longer acceptable, and the pertinent question is how long can
humanity continue pursuing consumption and growth predicated on
ever-increasing efficiency. The Coronavirus pandemic has amplified
concerns about the highly digitized, interconnected, and vulnerable
state of the global economy, the relationship with nature, and the
prospects for each living being on this planet, including people,
to survive and to thrive. To navigate and survive the coming decade
of transformative change, every business will need to harness all
the ingenuity, creativity and imagination they can muster.
Corporate leaders and entrepreneurs will be required to steer their
businesses towards a new model of prosperity, based on green and
regenerative principles. It is time for leaders in business to
overhaul their purpose, plans and strategies for this new context
and explore different futures, engage with new partners and create
space for experimentation. The only way to prepare for the future
is to explore how companies, especially medium and small
enterprises as well as women led businesses can transform their
future strategies to be more compatible with challenges such as
cyber security, human security, ethical principles and financial
transparency.This book presents a collection of empirical and
original research papers on evolving business strategies within a
dynamic global environment to provide valuable insights to
scholars, academicians, practitioners, policymakers and students.
The year 2020 was a watershed event in the history of climate
change politics. It marked the end of the second commitment period
of the Kyoto Protocol and the beginning of the ambitious Paris
Agreement. It was also the year of the pandemic, where the
disruption caused severe implications on a global scale. The
pandemic also brought before the world the severity and scale of
the transboundary challenges in a globally interconnected world. It
exposed the weaknesses of the global institutions and governance
structures in tackling the complex and imminent threat of climate
change.As states prepare for the future of global climate change
negotiations post the COP26 event of 2021, there has been a
significant shift in the politics of climate change at all levels.
The negotiations took place in the shadows of the pandemic, which
has challenged the political lethargy and non-committal attitudes
of states on the climate change question.Unlike in the past,
climate change is now a hot issue on the political high tables. It
has also spilled outside these negotiating spaces and into the
public sphere. Whether it is the school strikes led by children or
the indigenous struggles of marginalized populations, the politics
of climate change today is far more diverse, representative, and
active. At the same time, we can witness the shifts in the state's
understanding of the problem, which is actively inquiring about its
security and geopolitical dimensions. The boundaries between
traditional and non-traditional threats to security are getting
blurred as climate change, and its myriad impacts wreak havoc on
ecosystem resilience, the state's welfare capacity, and people's
everyday lives.Hence, this volume seeks to decipher the nature of
global climate change politics in the post-pandemic and climate
insecure world. Who will be its main actors, main stakeholders, and
losers? How will questions of equity, sustainability, and finance
interplay at the COP26 event and thereafter? How will developing
and poor countries engage with the issue in the next phase of
climate politics? Finally, how will the ambition of the Paris
Agreement, which is reflected in the language of net-zero targets
and the two degrees Celsius temperature goals, be brought into
action?
Why have the influences of the Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution (roughly 1966-1976) in contemporary China been so
pervasive, profound, and long-lasting? This book posits that the
Revolution challenged everyone to decide how they can and should be
themselves.Even scholars who study the Cultural Revolution from a
presumably external vantage point must end up with an ideological
position relative to whom they study. This amounts to a focused
curiosity toward the Maoist agenda rivaling its alternatives. As a
result, the political lives after the Cultural Revolution remain,
ulteriorly and ironically, Maoist to a ubiquitous extent.How then
can we cleanse, forget, neutralize, rediscover, contextualize,
realign, revitalize, or renovate Maoism? The authors contend that
all must appropriate ideologies for political and analytical
purposes and adapt to how others use ideological discourses. This
book then invites its readers to re-examine ideology contexts for
people to appreciate how they acquire their roles and duties. Those
more practiced can even reversely give new meanings to reform,
nationalism, foreign policy, or scholarship by shifting between
Atheism, Maoism, Confucianism, and Marxism, incurring alternative
ideological lenses to de-/legitimize their subject matter.
This book brings into focus India's relations with ASEAN and
Thailand in particular. In the 1990s, India revived its relations
with Southeast Asia. Yet, in comparison to China, India continued
to be a distant neighbour. Hence, India has once again, through its
'Look and Act East' policies become intertwined with its immediate
neighbours in the East, especially with Thailand. The objective of
the book is to contextualise India's relations and influence in
Southeast Asia over a period of nearly two thousand years, through
culture and religion. The scope of the book extends beyond
bilateral issues to include the multilateral, bringing in issues of
trade negotiations under the Regional Comprehensive Economic
Partnership (RCEP) and the Indo-Pacific construct. As ASEAN's
importance grows in the regional and global landscape, there are
ramifications for its relations with its traditional partners. The
volatility and suspicion among the major powers, especially USA and
China harbour the potential to disunite ASEAN. A rising India seeks
a united and strong ASEAN both as a natural partner and in a bid to
balance China's growing assertiveness and deep pockets. Based on
interviews conducted with experts , diplomats and scholars in the
field, this book encompasses a wide range of aspects that pertain
to the historical, cultural, economic and strategic international
relations of ASEAN and Thailand with India.
"This highly original book shifts our attention away from the
preoccupations of the U.S. to India and from conventional social
science and area studies perspectives to civilizational
sensibilities. In a series of searching essays by well-informed
Indian scholars, China's rise appears in a fresh light. Rather than
seeking to bend China's experience only to the impatient
expectations of secular liberalism, this important book reminds us
of the imagined affinities that a civilizational understanding of
self and other creates in India for China and the empathetic
patience it engenders. Our understanding of China is greatly
enriched by new insights that this broader vision yields." - Peter
J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International
Studies, Cornell University
This book interrogates several strands of Gandhian design,
articulations, methods and ideals, through five sections. These
include Theoretical Perspectives, Peace and World Order,
Revolutionary Experiments, National Integration and Gandhi in
Chinese Discourses. The authors seek to provide answers to
questions as: Were Gandhian ideas utopian? What is the contemporary
relevance of Gandhi? Do his ideas share convergence with theory in
world politics and international relations? What was his role in
forging national integration? How did his ideologies and
experiments with truth resonate with countries as China?The
writings also underline that being averse to individualism, for
Gandhi it was the realm of societal interests which were
significant, encompassing the good of humanity, dignity of labor
and village-centric development. Development paradigms and health
related challenges are articulated in the book to underline the
significance of Gandhi's vision of 'Leave no one behind' to create
an egalitarian society with respect and tolerance. The book
presents the essential humility and simplicity of Gandhi.This book
is a must read for those who seek to understand Gandhi in a way
that is candid and inclusive. It's a book that conceals nothing and
does not shy away from presenting debates on Gandhi. Moreover, it
is a factual account, with contributors having relied extensively
on archival materials, essays and an extensive review of
literature. Hence, the book is replete with pertinent documentation
and scholarship and makes a significant value-addition in the
literature on Gandhi.
The labyrinthine BRI projects, aimed at realizing win-win benefits,
have created new challenges for the host countries. Economic
aspirations must be shielded and protected by security umbrellas,
thus making these countries partners of the China-dominated
security architecture. Nowhere is this more evident than in the
countries of Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Despite Southeast Asian
nations being viewed as within the ambit of China's historical
sphere of influence, Myanmar and Thailand provide experiences
different from their neighbours. This book analyzes China as an
economic juggernaut, undergirded by global ambitions, expanding its
economic footprint across South and Southeast Asia through trade,
technological supremacy and territorial acquisitions. The authors
also navigate China's policies at home and abroad, providing a
futuristic perspective on China's path to victory. The book
provides answers to compelling questions as:
The rise of China has reconstituted the regional identity in Asia
as well as the lens through which understanding of China and
self-understanding are no longer separate processes intellectually.
China scholarship in South and Southeast Asia necessarily
highlights meanings of encountering China that Western social
sciences fail to reflect because academics in many places, being
migrants, navigate and combine more than one civilization forces.
With China in itself undergoing transformation, it is unlikely that
one can simply speak of China without multiple qualifications of
what one actually refers to. The book gathers authors who come from
different scholarly traditions to reflect upon how the presentation
of China in academic writings as well as think tank analyses can
engender different identity possibilities. The book therefore
complicates the category 'China' to enable mutual empathy between
everything that in one way or another relies on Chineseness as
object or subject in accordance with the identity strategies of the
China experts.
This book, an outcome of the second Asian Relations Conference
organized by Indian Council of World Affairs and Association of
Asia Scholars in November 2010, endeavors to examine the dynamics
of India's relations on the western flank that include the Gulf
countries and also involve important components of shaping of Asian
Relations in general and India's diaspora and energy security in
particular. At the deeper level, it is also an effort to ensure
that this region is no longer considered as outside the dominant
connotation of Asia Pacific which is often seen to subsume Asian
relations. India has always stood for having an inclusive and
comprehensive picture of Asian relations and this book is presented
in that larger context. Accordingly, this volume seeks to highlight
India's increasing engagement viz-a-viz the Gulf countries that
include Iran, Iraq and the GCC countries i.e. Kuwait, Bahrain,
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
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