Asian Strategic Review 2007

Publisher: Academic Foundation
ISBN 978-81-7188-667-8
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ABOUT THE BOOK

The volume, divided into four sections, deals with strategic developments pertaining to Asia. Recognising the diverse ‘push’ and ‘pull’ factors impinging on a country’s strategic posture, the volume starts off by dealing with issues which the Advisory Committee of Experts guiding this publication felt were of immediate relevance. Accordingly, the first section, on “International Security Issues” has articles analysing India’s responses to the global energy security challenges, the resurgent Russia, the emerging military technologies and their security implications for India, the ‘global war on terror’ and the issues concerning the nuclear non-proliferation regime.

The next three parts contain in-depth analyses of major events in South, East and the West and Central regions of Asia. These constitute India’s immediate and extended strategic neighbourhood. The wide range of issues dealt with include the evolving partnership between India and the United States, the changes in the contours of the Sino-Indian and the Sino-Japanese relationship, an evaluation of the India-Pakistan peace process, the challenges of institutionalising democracies in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Afghanistan, the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, the East Asian ‘economic dynamism and political flux’, Pyongyang’s nuclear ‘brinkmanship’, Iran’s nuclear programme, developments in Israel-Palestinian relations, and the role of major powers in Central Asia.

The volume also presents a Statistical Appendix containing defence and conflict-related data for important countries in Asia.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

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S.D. MUNI, Senior Visiting Scholar, IDSA was formerly professor and Chairperson of the Centre for South, Central and Southeast Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was also India’s Ambassador to Laos (1997-1999) and Special Envoy in pursuance of India’s claims for a permanent UNSC seat.

The author/editor of more than 20 books including Internal Conflicts in South Asia, Maoists Insurgency in Nepal, India’s Energy Security, China’s Strategic Engagement with the New ASEAN, Responding to Terrorism in South Asia, and over a 100 research papers, Prof. Muni is a distinguished expert on South/Southeast Asian political and security affairs. He was bestowed with Sri Lanka’s highest honour for a non-national, ‘SRI LANKA RATNA’ in 2005.

CONTENTS IN DETAIL

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I
International Security Issues

  1. Global Energy Security Challenges: India’s Response
    Shebonti Ray Dadwal
  2. Emerging Military Technologies: Security Implications for India
    Ajey Lele
  3. Global War on Terror: The Long War to Nowhere
    Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
  4. A Supranational Agency for Nuclear Materials?
    Rajiv Nayan
  5. Resurgence of Russia
    P. Stobdan
  6. II
    South Asia: Concerns and Hopes

  7. India–Pakistan Peace Process: Gathering Momentum
    Ashutosh Misra
  8. Pakistan 2006: Between Internal Constraints and External Pressures
    Ashok K. Behuria
  9. Bangladesh: Amidst Constitutional Crisis
    Sreeradha Datta
  10. Sri Lanka: Towards Eelam War IV?
    Alok Bansal and M. Mayilvaganan
  11. The Challenge of Building a New Nepal
    Smruti S. Pattanaik
  12. Afghanistan: Growing Uncertainties
    Vishal Chandra
  13. Naxalism/Left-wing Extremism in India: Purpose and Strategy
    Namrata Goswami
  14. III
    Dynamism and Flux in Asia-Pacific

  15. East Asia in 2006: Economic Dynamism and Political Flux
    G.V.C. Naidu
  16. Sino–Indian Engagement?
    Raviprasad Narayanan
  17. Sino-Japanese Strategic Relations
    Abanti Bhattacharya
  18. Japan’s Leadership Transition
    Arpita Mathur
  19. Nuclear Brinkmanship in East Asia: Responses and Ramifications
    S. Samuel C. Rajiv
  20. Meeting Threats to Sea-Lines Collectively: Emerging Contours in the Indian Ocean
    Gurpreet S. Khurana
  21. IV
    Engagements and Conflict in West and Central Asia

  22. Indo–Saudi Engagement: Breaking New Ground
    Gulshan Dietl
  23. Iran’s Nuclear Defiance
    Rajesh Kumar Mishra
  24. Hamas, Israel, and Peace
    A. K. Pasha
  25. The Second Israel–Lebanon War: An Appraisal
    V. Krishnappa
  26. Major Powers in Central Asia: Imperatives for India
    Meena Singh Roy
  27. V
    Statistical Appendix
    Appendix Tables

    CONTRIBUTORS:

    Alok Bansal
    Research Fellow, South Asia, IDSA

    Ashok Behuria
    Research Fellow, South Asia, IDSA

    Abanti Bhattacharya
    Associate Fellow, East and South- East Asia, IDSA

    Vishal Chandra
    Associate Fellow, South Asia, IDSA

    Shanthie Mariet D’Souza
    Associate Fellow, USA and Europe Studies, IDSA

    Shebonti Ray Dadwal
    Research Fellow, Energy Security, IDSA

    Sreeradha Datta
    Research Fellow, South Asia, IDSA

    Gulshan Dietl
    Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, JNU

    Namrata Goswami
    Associate Fellow, Internal Security, IDSA

    Gurpreet Khurana
    Research Fellow, Military Affairs, IDSA

    V. Krishnappa
    Research Fellow, Military Affairs, IDSA

    Ajey Lele
    Research Fellow, Modeling and Net Assessment, IDSA

    Arpita Mathur
    Associate Fellow, East and South- East Asia, IDSA

    M. Mayilvaganan
    Associate Fellow, South Asia, IDSA

    Rajesh Kumar Mishra
    Associate Fellow, Weapons of Mass Destruction, IDSA

    Ashutosh Misra
    Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane

    G.V.C. Naidu
    Senior Fellow, East and South-East Asia, IDSA

    Raviprasad Narayanan
    Associate Fellow, East and South-East Asia, IDSA

    Rajiv Nayan
    Research Officer, USA and Europe Studies, IDSA

    A.K. Pasha
    Professor, Centre for West Asian Studies, JNU

    Smruti Pattanaik
    Research Fellow, South Asia, IDSA

    S. Samuel C. Rajiv
    Research Assistant, Military Affairs, IDSA

    Meena Singh Roy
    Research Officer, Russia and Central Asia, IDSA

    P. Stobdan
    Centre for Strategic and Regional Studies, Jammu University

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