Mapping Central Asia

Indian Perceptions and Strategies
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-25681-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-South Asia relations have become central to understanding the future of the Eurasian continent. Mapping Central Asia identifies the trends, attitudes, and ideas that are key to structuring the Central Asia-South Asia axis in the coming decade. Structured in three parts, the book skillfully guides us through the importance of the historical links between the Indian sub-continent and Central Asia, the regional and global context in which the developing of closer relations between India and Central Asia has presented itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the precise domains of Indo-Central Asian cooperation, and studies three conflict zones that frame Indo-Central Asian relations: the Kashmir question; the situation in Afghanistan; and fear of destabilization in Xinjiang. The international line-up of established scholars convincingly demonstrate the fundamental necessity to define the Indian approach on these issues and provide cutting-edge insights on the tools needed to understand the solutions for the decade to come.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peyrouse, Sébastien

Laruelle, Marlène

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, MarlèneLaruelle, SébastienPeyrouse; Part I The Past as a Link? Reassessing Indo-Central Asian History; Chapter 1 Foreign Policy and Myth-making, MarlèneLaruelle; Chapter 2 Bukhara in a Revolutionary Time and its Indian Connections, SuchandanaChatterjee; Chapter 3 The Opening and Closing of Direct Indo-Central Asian Relations, 1924–1940, SurendraGopal; Chapter 4 Perceptions and Strategies, AnitaSengupta; Chapter 5 The Revival of the Silk Roads Topic, SreematiGanguli; Part II Contextualizing Indo-Central Asian Relations; Chapter 6 Domestic and International Articulations of the Indian Involvement in Central Asia, SébastienPeyrouse; Chapter 7 Framing Indo-Central Asian Relations, 1990s–2000s, AjayPatnaik; Chapter 8 India’s New Look at Central Asia Policy, Jagannath P.Panda; Chapter 9 Indo-Central Asian Economic Relations, GulshanSachdeva; Part III The In-Between Points of Tension; Chapter 10 Managing Regional Geopolitical Uncertainty, MarlèneLaruelle, SébastienPeyrouse; Chapter 11 India’s Policy towards Central Asia, MeenaSingh Roy; Chapter 12 Restoring India’s Links with Central Asia across Kashmir, Mushtaq A.Kaw; Chapter 13 The Resurgence of the Taliban and Regional Security Concerns, AjayDarshan Behera; Chapter 14 The Xinjiang Issue, K.Warikoo; Chapter 101 Conclusion, MarlèneLaruelle, SébastienPeyrouse;

Über Autor(innen)

Marlène Laruelle is a Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. Her main areas of expertise are nationalism, national identities, political philosophy, intellectual trends and geopolitical conceptions of elites in Russia and Central Asia.