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Condition: New. Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Dynamics of Regional Security: 1. Internal dynamics of security in South Asia/Muchkund Dubey. 2. Regional security in South Asia/Mubashir Hasan. 3. Security issues in their political and economic contexts/David Taylor. 4. Stability and security in South Asia: towards a post nationalist perspective/Bhupinder Brar. 5. Underdevelopment poverty and Imbalances in development in South Asia/Indra Nath Mukherji. II. Assertion of Ethnic Identity and Nation State: 6. Rethinking national identity in South Asia: creating political space for cultural autonomy/Robert G. Wirsing. 7. Internal dynamics of South Asian security: ethnic dissonance/Syed Anwar Husain. 8. Internationalization of ethnic conflict in South Asia/P. Sahadevan. 9. State national security and collective identities: security implications of ethnic secessionist movements in post cold war South Asia/Gamini B. Keerawella. 10. Ethnic resurgence and the response of the Indian state/Shanti Swarup. 11. Devolution proposals in Sri Lanka; a critique/V. Suryanarayan. 12. Ethnic resurgence in the Himalayan states of Nepal and Bhutan/Kapileshwar Labh. III. Religious Fundamentalism and Sectarian Conflicts: 13. The rise of religious fundamentalism/Kalim Bahadur. 14. Assessing the threat of Islamic revivalism in Pakistan/Rasul Bakhsh Rais. 15. Pakistan: religion politics and society/Asghar Ali Engineer. 16. Communalism and fundamentalism in Bangladesh/S.R. Chakravarty. IV. Cross Border Issues: 17. Cross border terrorism in South Asia: some core issues/Jasjit Singh. 18. Menace of drug trafficking in South Asia/Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema. 19. Secessionist movements in an age of globalization: the liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka/Peter Kloos. 20. The indigenous people of Bangladesh/Jayanta Kumar Ray. 21. Travails of refugees across Bangladesh India border/Imtiaz Ahmad. 22. Human rights and refugee problems in South Asia: the case of Bhutanese refugees/Krishna P. Khanal. 23. Inter state migration ethno politics and security in the Himalayas/Ramakant and B.C. Upreti. Index. This volume brings together contributions by some of the most distinguished scholars and policy makers from within and outside South Asia looking at the internal dynamics of regional security in South Asia in a broad and comprehensive framework. All together the essays present an indepth analysis of some major issues of internal security which are of great concern for the whole region. The volume provides a multi dimensional and insightful overview of the political and economic contexts of South Asian security delineating in considerable depth and detail the challenges of ethno nationalism and issues of nation state in South Asia. It also provides an indepth analysis of the challenges of religious fundamentalism ethno sectarian strife and cross border terrorism in the region. The contributors stress the importance of a clear restructuring of political economic and social relations in the plural societies of South Asia and the need for establishing healthy traditions of political dialogue and consensus as also transparency and accountability in governance in order to meet the growing internal challenges to South Asian regional security. This volume will be immensely useful to policy makers and scholars engaged in South Asian studies within the region and beyond.

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