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A comprehensive study focusing on emerging new multilateralism in
the Indo-Pacific.
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.
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.
Published in association with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New
Delhi This Book is an attempt to collate Indian perspectives on the
multifaceted themes and sectors of China-Pakistan strategic
cooperation. China-Pakistan ties have been a major obsession
amongst Indian opinion and policy-makers. However, this obsession
remains restricted to Chinas transfers of sensitive technologies
while the essential backdrop that has sustained such a unique axis
has never been explored with sufficient rigour. Especially, given
the secrecy that shrouds these transfers of missiles and nuclear
material, technologies and know-how, occasional outbursts in Indian
media remains vulnerable to political populism, emotional outrage
and to calculated Western media leaks. These trigger flashes of
interest but no substantive follow up debates or dedicated research
for evolving Indias policy options. It is this essential gap that
this volume tries to fill and generate a serious debate on contours
and implications of ChinaPakistan relations. The project locates
itself primarily in the new context where the events following 9/11
and the growing IndiaChina and IndiaPakistan understanding seems to
undermine ChinaPakistan axis and looks forward to future
challenges. In addition to providing a wealth of information and
analysis on this subject of critical importance, this volume aims
at shedding populism and bursting several myths that continue to
surround Indian debates on ChinaPakistan strategic cooperation.
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 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.
Colonial legacies in knowledge production affect the way the world
is represented and understood today. However, the subject is rarely
attended. The book, Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of
China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self, is
about the colonial construction of intellectual perspectives of the
colonized population in terms of the latter's approach to China and
Chineseness in the modern world. Relying on the available oral
histories of senior China scholars primarily in Asia, authors from
various postcolonial and colonial sites present these multiple
routs of self-constitution and reconstitution through the use of
China and Chineseness as category. The revealed manipulation of
this third category, romantically as well as antagonistically, is
easier than straightforward self-reflection for us all to accept
that, coming to identities and relations, none, even subaltern, is
politically innocent or capable of epistemological monopoly.
Through comparative studies, it shows a way of self-understanding
that does not always require discursive construction of border or
cultural consumption of any specific 'other'.With US-China rivalry
possibly lasting for decades, this book offers extremely rich and
contrasting practices from the subaltern worlds for anyone in a
quest for humanist alternatives. This interdisciplinary and
transnational project contributes to post-colonial studies,
cultural studies, international relations, China and Chinese
studies, and the comparative histories of East Asia, Southeast
Asia, and South Asia.
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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