Responding to Terrorism in South Asia
Contents: Preface. Introduction/S.D. Muni. Case studies: I. India: 2. Responding to terrorism in Punjab, and Jammu & Kashmir/Ajai Sahni. 3. Insurgencies in North-east India: dimensions of discord and containment/Vijendra Singh Jafa. II. Pakistan: 4. Responding to terrorism: the Pakistani response/Samina Ahmed. III. Bangladesh: 5. The challenges of terrorism: Bangladesh responses/Abul Kalam. IV. Sri Lanka: 6. State responses to terrorism: the case of Sri Lanka/Ketheshwaran (Kethesh) Loganathan. V. Nepal: 7. Tackling insurgency: the Nepal case/Deepak Thapa. VI. Bhutan: 8. Bhutan\'s response to the challenge of terrorism/Wasbir Hussain. Comparative perspectives: 9. Responding to terrorism: political and social consequences in South Asia/Lok Raj Baral. 10. Terrorism in South Asia/Ayesha Siddiqa. 11. Role of third parties in resolving terrorism-generating conflicts/V.R. Raghavan. 12. Political economy of terrorism: sustenance factors and consequences/Mahendra P. Lama. Conclusion: 13. Responding to terrorism: an overview/S.D. Muni. Data Base: 14. Data paper on terrorism in South Asia/P.V. Ramana. List of contributors. Index.
"Even though South Asia has had along and diverse experience of dealing with terrorism, post 9/11 a sense of urgency and seriousness has been reinforced with regard to it at the global level. The focus in this timely volume is on the strategies evolved by the South Asian states in responding to the challenge of terrorism. It is inevitable, however, that while looking at the strategies, essential characteristics of terrorism are also understood and explained as the nature of terrorism faced in each of the South Asian countries has its own specific aspects.
The study in divided into two sections. In the first section, the way in which each of the South Asian states have responded to terrorism, has been studied carefully. In the second section, some of the comparative aspects of the regional perspective, such as the role of civil societies, consequences of strategies pursued, role of the third parties, and political economy of terrorism and responding strategies have been taken up for discussion and analysis. There is also a data paper on South Asian terrorism included at the end." (jacket)
