Asia Annual – 2004/edited by Mahavir Singh. Delhi,
Shipra, 2005, x, 354 p., ISBN 81-7541-230-5.
Asia Annual – 2004/edited by Mahavir Singh. Delhi,
Shipra, 2005, x, 354 p., ISBN 81-7541-230-5.
Contents: Introduction. 1. Indian revolutionaries at metaphor in modern Uzbek literature/Timur Kocaoglu. 2. Russia's new perspective on Asia: an assessment/Glerii Shirokov and Andrei Volodin. 3. India-Russia-China: triangle to transform the present world order/Devendra Kaushik. 4. Xinjiang: prospects for a peaceful future/S. FrederickStarr. 5. India and China: a changing relationship/V.P. Dutt. 6. Changes in security and cooperation situation in Asian region: advantage and disadvantage factors/Du Yanling. 7. Multipolarization and security structure of Asia-Pacific region/Li Xinwei. 8. Promoting establishment of fair and equitable new international political and economic order/An Yuejun and Su Zuhui. 9. Central Asian cooperation: the possibilities of development of regional integration processes/M. Chanachev. 10. Integrating the economy of Kazakhstan into world economy: ways and mechanisms/B.K. Kazbekov. 11. Economic problems of the processing of hydrocarbon resources/O.I. Egorov. 12. Collection of manuscripts on the history of India--a note: Fonds of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, Republic of Uzbekistan/B. Obidov. 13. The challenge of radical Islam to democratisation in Central Asia/Nalin Kumar Mohapatra. 14. Looking at the past through the prism of the present: analysis of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka/V. Suryanarayan. 15. Negotiating peace in Sri Lanka: dynamics and implications/Karori Singh. 16. The East Asian 'Tigers' in the light of Russian and Latin American experience/Victor Krassilchtchikov. 17. ASEAN+3 and GMS: case studies of regional integration/Kosum Saichan. 18. Japan's growing role in Asian maritime security: an Indian perspective/Sanjana Joshi. 19. Mongolia--China relations: post-cold war scenario/Sharad K. Soni. 20. Afghan women in transition: a critical appraisal/Arpita Basu Roy. 21. India-China trade through the Stilwell road/H.N. Das. Asian events-2003. Documents.
"The Asia Annual is the cross-disciplinary journal of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.
The current volume, the fifth in succession, contains twenty one well-researched articles, authored by eminent scholars from India and abroad, are devoted to security and cooperation in Asia and the Asia-Pacific region, new international political and economic order, multi-polarisation, bilateral relations between India and China, new Russian perspective on Asia, possibilities for trilateral cooperation between India, Russia and China, and prospects for a peaceful future of Xinjiang. Central Asia remains in the focus of the current issue also. Scholars and policy-makers may find the issue useful." (jacket)