Kw: 118 books
India-Myanmar Connectivity: Current Status and Future Prospects
Current Status and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The changing situation in Myanmar creates new opportunities for deepening India-Myanmar relations. Owing to its strategic position, Myanmar is connecting Asia’s three big markets – ASEAN, China and India. Myanmar forms a land-bridge connecting South Asia with Southeast Asia. But, country’s underdeveloped...
Inward Foreign Investments in India and China: A Comparative Perspective
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
India and China have been the major recipients of FDI inflows in the last two decades. The level and growth of the flows though have been much higher for China than India. This phenomenon have given rise to a huge literature exploring the reasons for such divergence. Data shows that the matters have...
Drone Operations: A Jurislogue
A Jurislogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Unmanned aerial systems, popularly known as drones, have been in the news for all sorts of reasons—good and bad. The media has focussed equally on them for their use in hunting down terrorists and quickly eliminating them, as also for the inadvertent killing of innocent civilians and collateral...
Weaponisation of Space: An Inevitable Reality and Plausible Fallout
An Inevitable Reality and Plausible Fallout
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Militarily, use of spacebased assets, when integrated with operations, assumes importance as one of the many force multipliers. As on date, outer space is being extensively used by the armed forces for varied services which include navigation, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, environmental...
Strategising Energy: An Asian Perspective
An Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
As energy has become one of the crucial factors in ensuring the economic growth and the sustainable development of people, nations, societies and, ultimately, human civilisation in the 21st century global scenario, there is a pressing need for treating energy as a strategic commodity and for analysing...
A Leap Forward: Capacity Building, Education and India-Afghanistan Cooperation
Capacity Building, Education and India-Afghanistan Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Since 2001, Afghanistan has provided New Delhi an opportunity to underline its role as a regional power. In the rapidly evolving geo-strategic scenario, India was forced to reconstitute and reassess its policies towards Afghanistan. India-Afghanistan Cooperation took a leap forward after the defeat...
Culture, Heritage and Identity: The Lepcha and Mangar Communities of Sikkim and Darjeeling
The Lepcha and Mangar Communities of Sikkim and Darjeeling
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
This book is about cultural politics and the quest for identity of two marginal communities of Sikkim and Darjeeling – the Lepcha and the Mangar. Sharing insights into the knowledge, aesthetics, aspirations and dreams of two marginal communities who have been innovatively and differentially appropriating...
China's Military Power: A Net Assessment
A Net Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This book is a structured net assessment of China’s military power by a reputed and well-known Indian military analyst. The growth of Chinese military power has been examined with emphasis on how it primarily affects India. The book analyses how India must respond. It has an exhaustively researched...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Despite a long historical experience of cultural, economic, political and social interaction with Europe, South Asia has never been a region of frontline policy for the European Union, which has gradually emerged as the largest trading partner of most South Asian economies, a major contributor of...
Eurasian Politics: Ideas, Institutions and External Relations
Ideas, Institutions and External Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
The transitional politics of Eurasian space is marked by a constant struggle among three sets of ideas and institutions: the 1 is the remarkable resilience of Soviet ideas and institutions; 2, an attempt by the regimes of these states to reinvent the historical and cultural traditions of preSoviet...
by Mr Arvind K Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Arvind Prasad was inspired by Jamshedpur and the steel company in 1957, when he came from Hazaribagh. Luck finally brought him to the steel city and he got education in R.D. Tata Higher Secondary School, Jamshedpur. He studied Geology in Tata College, Chaibasa, courtesy Prof. P.S. Gupta and Nandu...
by Ambassador R S Kalha
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The Dynamics of Preventive Diplomacy is a unique study of one of the more enduring concepts that came to the fore with the end of the cold war. At the heart of the matter is the concern of the international community that symptoms of impending conflict situations must be diagnosed early and treated...
Games of life and land: A comparative analysis of the origins of true enclaves in South and Central Asia, their impacts on public policy, and factors prolonging their existence
A comparative analysis of the origins of true enclaves in South and Central Asia, their impacts on public policy, and factors prolonging their existence
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Previous works discussing the enclaves shared between India and Bangladesh, or the enclaves of Central Asia, have centered primarily on their historical origins and on their inhabitants’ living conditions. This monograph briefly reviews these works while making a comparison between the enclaves...
China's Approach Towards Territorial Disputes: Lessons and Prospects
Lessons and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
China’s territorial disputes have been a matter of debate since the 1950s. While China has amicably resolved boundary disputes with 12 out of 14 neighbouring countries, it is yet to resolve its boundary disputes with India and Bhutan as also its two martime disputes in the South China Sea and East...