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South Asia and the great powers : international relations and regional security /

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics. This book asks whether the region's great powers can overcome opposing interests and commit to political restraint. The concept of regional security is based on great...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rynning, Sten (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London : I B Tauris , 2017
Series:Library of international relations (Series) ; 81.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Transitions
  • Regional cooperation in South Asia: a political and historical perspective
  • When the fighting stays tough, what will the tough do?: The Afghan saga continues
  • Capacity building as partnership: NATO's future role
  • Part II. National interests
  • Losing the "Forgotten war": the US strategic vacuum in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia
  • Silk Road diplomacy: China's strategic interests in South Asia
  • India's Afghanistan policy: in search of a comprehensive strategy
  • Iran, Afghanistan and the benefits of a regional approach
  • Foreign policy change in Pakistan: uncertain options
  • Afghanistan between nation-state building and regional collaboration
  • Part III. Perspectives
  • It's the strategic narrative, stupid!: How the United States may overcome the challenge of continued engagement in Afghanistan beyond 2017
  • Conclusion: South Asia in quest of restraint.