Containing thirteen chapters by Indian and European scholars and practitioners, this volume critically examines the multifarious domestic and external challenges that Pakistan confronts today. It discusses the vicissitudes of the European Union's relations with Pakistan and the cultural, economic, political and military relations of Central Europe and key European countries--France, Germany and the United Kingdom--with Pakistan.
The study highlights the different approaches of India and the European Union towards the Kashmir dispute and the considerations, concerns and policy of the EU towards democracy promotion in Pakistan. It also seeks to answer the question whether the relationship between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Pakistan is a transactional relationship or an enduring partnership. The book analyses the problems faced by Pakistan's oil and gas sector and the challenges and opportunities for European companies to expand Pakistan's energy basket.
The volume examines the nature, dynamics and challenges of social integration and political participation by the Pakistani diaspora in the United Kingdom. It also explores the political context that shapes both policy and discourse on immigrant integration with special reference to the Pakistani diaspora's lived experience in three Scandinavian countries.
The study will be of interest to all those engaged in the fields of political science, international relations, European politics and foreign policy and Indian and South Asian politics and foreign policy.
RAJENDRA K JAIN is Professor of European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been the first Jean Monnet Chair in India (2010-2015). He was formerly Visiting Humboldt Foundation Professor at Constance, Freiburg, Leipzig and Tübingen universities in Germany as well as Visiting Professor, the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, and the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He has also been Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) Contemporary India Chair at Leuven University (2015). Prof. Jain has participated in over 150 national/international conferences, including 100 conferences in various parts of the world. He is the author of 125 articles/chapters in books as well as the author/editor of 30 books, the most recent being The European Union and South Asia (KW Publishers, 2015), India, Europe and Conflict Resolution in South Asia (KW Publishers, 2015) and India and the European Union in a Changing World (Aakar Books, 2014).
