South Asia : Envisioning a Regional Future
Contents: Introduction. I. Forging Regional Consensus: 1. South Asia 2020: moving towards cooperation or conflict?/Nirupama Rao. 2. South Asia in the next decade: a futuristic perspective/Arvind Guipta. 3. South Asian regional security architecture: between anarchy and order/Sujit Dutta. 4. Dealing with terrorism: can there be a regional approach?/Shahedul Anam Khan. 5. Changing pattern of security threats: imperatives fore realignment/Kaiser Bengali and Nausheen Wasi. 6. South Asia between cooperation and conflict: globalisation, and violent peace/Darini Rajasingham Senanayake. 7. Transboundry rivers in South Asia: source of cooperation or conflict?/Uttam Kumar Sinha. II. Domestic politics and the future of South Asia: 8. Democratic state building as an effective and enduring conflict resolution strategy for Afghanistan/Davood Moradian. 9. The Tamil National Question in Sri Lanka: current dynamics and future trends/Sumanasiri Liyanage. 10. Federalising the Nepali State challenges and opportunities/Krishna P. Khanal. 11. Radicalisation of civil society: a case study of Pakistan/Tahmina Rashid. 12. South Asia in 2020: a Maldives perspective/Ibrahim Hussain Zaki. III. Extra-regional powers and regional security: 13. Extra-regional powers and their interest in Nepal/Nishchal N. Pandey. 14. The Afghanistan conundrum: regionalizing the peace effort/Ahmad Shayeq Qassem. 15. Extra-regional powers and the emerging security scenario in South Asia/Rajesh Rajagopalan. 16. China’s South Asian Policy: From Bilateral to multilateral/Swaran Singh. IV. Forging regional cooperation: the way ahead: 17. Does SAARC have a future?/Smruti S. Pattanaik. 18. Regional economic integration and SAFTA: What does it portend?/Nitya Nanda and Souvik Bhattacharjya. 19. Regional transport connectivity: getting past the impediments/M. Rahmatullah. Index.
This volume includes a collection of papers contributed by eminent scholars and analysts from the South Asian region on how they visualize South Asia a decade hence. This was primarily motivated by the desire to think collectively about our regional future in terms of issues that challenge the region and the individual states; how the external powers presence in this region affects I; and the role of regional institutional mechanisms in fostering cooperation and greater economic integration in a globalised world, where connectivity is a key.
It is organized that the region suffers from several constraints that has made common challenges difficult to address; nevertheless, there is an optimism that the region will move forward steadily albeit slowly, to evolve a common agenda, and shape a regional identity that would form the bedrock of any cooperative endeavour.
