Global
Challenge of Terrorism/edited by V.D. Chopra. New Delhi, Gyan Pub., 2002,
xvi, 324 p., $44. ISBN 81-212-0805-X.Global
Challenge of Terrorism/edited by V.D. Chopra. New Delhi, Gyan Pub., 2002,
xvi, 324 p., $44. ISBN 81-212-0805-X.
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Our democratic answer to terrorism/K.R. Narayanan. 2. International cooperation against terrorism/Sonia Gandhi. 3. Terrorism and Indo-Pak conflict on Kashmir/Rajindar Sachar. 4. Terrorism and human rights/Hari Swarup. 5. United States, Russia and the war against international terrorism/B.K. Shrivastava. 6. Will the United States withdraw from Central and South Asia?/Ge Lide. 7. Terrorism, cross-border terrorism and global terrorism/Satya Pal Dang. 8. An anatomy of global terrorism/Shri Prakash. 9. Cross-border terrorism – historical perspective/Ashwini Kumar. 10. Cross-border terrorism – a critique/Afsir Karim. 11. Cross-border terrorism and Border Security Force/Surindur Singh. 12. The growing dimension of Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence/Chandra B. Khanduri. 13. Role of narcotics in promoting terrorism/Kshitij Prabha. 14. Distortion of religious philosophies/V.D. Chopra. 15. On the concept of compassion in Islam/Asghar Ali Engineer. 16. Hindu religious revivalism—a critical estimate/V.D. Chopra. 17. Geo-strategic importance of Jammu and Kashmir/V.D. Chopra. 18. Geo-political and socio-economic causes of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir/G.M. Shah. 19. Right of self-determination and Kashmir/V.D. Chopra. 20. Cease-Fire Line, Line of Control and Shimla Agreement/V.D. Chopra. 21. Strategic role of Afghanistan/V.D. Chopra. 22. The Maoist challenge in Nepal/S.D. Muni. 23. Terrorism in Central Asia—an overview/Meena Singh Roy. 24. Terrorism in Xinjiang—Chinese experience/V.D. Chopra. 25. Significance of Shanghai Forum/V.D. Chopra. 26. Nature of terrorism in Chechnya/Zafar Imam. 27. International terrorism : the case of Chechnya/Ravi M. Bakaya. 28. The dynamics of terrorism in Algeria/Jagdish P. Sharma. Appendix. Index.
"Since the September 11, 2001 strikes on World Trade Centre in New York and subsequent tragic events in India—attacks on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, on Indian Parliament (13 December) and growing trend to cross-border terrorism, the threat to international peace and stability, of South Asia in particular has assumed a dangerous proportion. In this volume nearly two dozen intellectuals and experts have contributed papers on rise of global terrorism—its strategic, geopolitical, socio-economic and ideological roots. This book brings into sharp focus how global terrorism has developed into a pyramid with various layers. To demolish this pyramid it is not enough to look at its hard surface of terroristic actions including human bombs. The hard surface needs to be demolished. Let us not make any bones about it. However, from the long-term point of view socio-economic, political and ideological roots of this have to be destroyed. This requires a determined political will. This is the main theme of this book." (jacket)