books you should read about South Asian Politics.
Book Name; Manufacturing Citizenship, Education and Nationalism in Europe, South Asia and China. Editor; Veronique Benei Gobalization has globalized everything. Right from trade, politics, migration to education. Nothing is now isolated and could vigorously be affected by globalization. Political boundaries and lines now exist only in maps as symbolic demarcation of political entity and sovereignty. …
Book Name; Gambling with Violence, State Outsourcing of War in Pakistan and in India. Author; Yelena Biberman. Yelena Biberman took the microcosm of two South Asian nuclear countries of India and Pakistan to show the macrocosm to its readers: why the two South Asian neighbours are out sourcing the violence to the ordinary civilians, criminals …
Book Name; Sustainable Energy Transition in South Asia; Challenges and Opportunities. Editors; S. Narayan, Christopher Len, Roshni Kapur. The energy demand and consumption is continuously increasing in South Asia and worldwide as well. This ever increasing rise is compelling the states to make arrangements for the new energy sources but their focus must be on …
Book Name; The Cage; The fight for Sri Lanka and the last days of Tamil Tigers. Author; Weiss Gordon. Former UN official and journalist Weiss Gordon gives a blood clotting account of last days of the Sri Lankan civil war that raged the country for 26 years. Weiss categorically condemns both the Sri Lanka Army …
Book Name; Politics of Gross National Happiness; Governance and Development in Bhutan Author; Kent Schroeder All over the world, both states and individuals are in the rat race of GDP and GNP and its calculation believing that wealth accumulation is guarantee to their happiness. But their thirst does not quench, if they get one targeted …
Book Name; Emotions, Mobilization and South Asian Politics. Editors; Amelie Blom, Stephanie Tawa Lama-Rewal. Believing staunchly on anything compels one to act and react for it. It was only emotions aroused by Mark Antony against the murderers of Julius Caesar that killed the conspirators by the Romans in revenge of their beloved Caesar!! It is …
Book Name; The Politics of counter-terrorism in India, Strategic Intelligence and National security in South Asia. Author; Prem Mahadevan A good read for those interested in the Indian politics after Mumbai attack, 2008. The India blame on Pakistan for providing “necessary support” to the perpetrators of these attacks further strained the already tensed relations between …
Book Name; Female ex-Combatants, Empowerment and Reintegration, Gender Inequalities in Liberia and Nepal. Author; Michanne Steenbergen. The UN led program of DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration) for female ex combatants was started in March 2005 to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate them into their society again. The specific focus of this program was their female …
US policy to balance the two conventional arch rivals in the two different regions of Middle East and South Asia, Iran, Iraq & India, Pakistan respectively.
Book Name: Radical politics in South Asia. Editors: Paul R. Brass, Marcus F. Franda. The seven South Asian countries with more than one billion people living in them is a vast chunk of land which could not be easily ignored by the World powers for their economic, political and military values. Being a conglomerate of …
