Regional Cooperation in South Asia : Emerging Dimensions and Issues
Contents: Preface. List of contributors. 1. Introduction/B.C. Upreti. 2. The SAARC: A Union Sans Union of minds/Tanmay Kanjilal. 3. Regional cooperation in South Asia--periled promise?/Dattesh D. Parulekar. 4. The imperative of a political agenda for SAARC/Akmal Hussain. 5. SAARC From inception to Dhaka : Constraints and prospects/B.C. Upreti. 6. Quest for durable regional cooperation in South Asia: a post-Islamabad scenario/Prosenjit Pal. 7. SAFTA: A boost to intra-regional trade/Vijay Katti and Geetanjali Nagraj Abhishikta. 8. SAFTA: A blueprint of South Asian Economic Cooperation/Roopali Sharma. 9. Pakistan and SAARC: The political dimension of economic cooperation in South Asia/Shashi Upadhyaya. 10. Changing perspectives and dynamics of India\'s relations with Southeast Asia: a study of Indo-ASEAN Political Partnership/Lipi Ghosh. 11. Afghanistan and South Asia/Ambrish Dhaka.
"South Asian Regional Cooperation has become a reality now. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation has tried to keep pace with the forces of globalization and liberalization. It is true that as an institutional framework SAARC has been a significant development, yet it has not been able to give sufficient momentum to regional solidarity and development. SAARC has often been criticized as an institution following a go-slow approach. It has also been perceived as an ineffective institution. What have been the major challenges and constraints before SAARC? What are the possible remedies and way outs? How is the expansion of SAARC going to help it? What are the problems and prospects of SAFTA?
The issues relating to regional stability and peace are equally important in the context of consolidation of regional cooperation in South Asia. The problem of terrorism, India-Pakistan tangle, inter-state conflicts, etc. have proved to be major obstacles to the progress of SAARC. What can be the remedies to these and other such problems? These are some of the issues that have been analyzed in depth in this volume. The book will be useful to students, scholars and the common readers." (jacket)
