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Cover of China: Confucius in the Shadows

China: Confucius in the Shadows

Confucius in the Shadows

by Ms Poonam Surie
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015

Earlier this decade a statue of Confucius appears suddenly in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. It is facing Chairman Mao’s statue in front of the Forbidden City. Mysteriously, it disappears a few days later. Why was it removed overnight? Where is it now?? No clear answers seem to have emerged. Most...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015

Jawaharlal Nehru being an architect of Indian polity, economy and foreign policy set the ball rolling. However, they have witnessed cataclysmic changes over a period of time. Indian polity has witnessed different waves of reorganisation of states, evolving democracy, spelling out of quasi-federal...
Cover of Contours of Relationship: India and the Middle East
by Prof Kingshuk Chatterjee
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

India’s relationship with the Middle East is a very good example of ties between people that are genuinely of historical. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East have down the ages been interacting with each other – travelling to each other’s lands, engaging in trade and commerce,...
Cover of Transforming South Asia: Imperatives for Action
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

Right from the Himalayan hermit kingdoms of Nepal and Bhutan to the island and archipelago countries of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, the sheer variety of South Asia not only in geographic terms, but also in terms of culture, language and tradition is unparalleled. A wide array of religious beliefs...
Cover of Social Inclusion of Ethnic Communities in Contemporary Nepal
by Dr Monika Mandal
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

Social Inclusion of Ethnic Communities in Contemporary Nepal focuses on the dynamics of ethnic identities and movement in South Asian states in a comparative framework. As we witness a series of explosive ethnic revivals across the globe, this study investigates the issues around ethnicity that have...
Cover of Trans Himalayan Buddhism: Re-connecting Spaces, Sharing Concerns
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013

Trans-Himalayan Buddhism is not simply a cultural spectacle across spaces north and south, east and west of the Himalayas. It is also a subject of interactive behaviour among Buddhist communities who have been dispersed over the Kunlun mountains or the Kashgar markets that have been the meeting points...
Cover of Contemporary West Asia: Perspectives on Change and Continuity
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of change and continuity in West Asia, its society, religion and politics. An overview of the region’s political, social and economic characteristics brought into sharper relief with the on-going turmoil in the region constitutes the...
Cover of Asian Defence Review 2016
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

Last year, the war in Syria became a melee––the US, Russia, NATO, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon and some others struggled to bring peace to the region. But each stakeholder hankered after a different end state––President Bashar al-Assad’s continuance in power became a contentious issue....
Cover of Asia in Post-Western Age
by Mr Niraj Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

The great geopolitician, Halford J. Mackinder, had the dream that Monsoon Asia, when it grows to prosperity, will balance those who “live between Missouri and the Yenisei.” In Asia in Post-Western Age, Niraj Kumar offers a vivid picture of the global distribution of material power and the emergence...
Cover of Perspectives on Turkey's Multi-Regional Role in the 21st Century
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015

This book dwells upon the various aspects of the Turkish foreign policy in the different regions of the world, especially with the dawn of the twenty-first century. Turkey has attracted international attention due to a marked transformation in the country’s domestic and external realms, which in...
Cover of Searching for Non-Western Roots of Conflict Resolution: Discourses, Norms and Case Studies
by Mr Shantanu Chakrabarti
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

Conflict resolution, as a defined field of study, has been facing stiff challenges in the post Cold War world. The multipolar setting of the globalised world with rising incidence of intra-state conflicts and growing convergence between security and development issues have generated fresh as well...
Cover of Protest and the State in Eurasia and West Asia
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

The twenty-first century has witnessed disaffection and protest across Eurasia and West Asia, triggering debates questioning the state of governance as well as looking at a redefinition of the ‘arc of crisis.’ By and large, there have been two major viewpoints, one which emphasises the aspect...
Cover of The State in Eurasia: Performance in Local and Global Arenas

The State in Eurasia: Performance in Local and Global Arenas

Performance in Local and Global Arenas

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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012

Since the emergence of post-Soviet states in the Eurasian space there has been considerable reflection on the role that the state has played in the local and global arenas. Transformation from being part of the ‘Soviet’ to independent existence has meant state involvement in the forging of new...
Cover of Central Asia: Horiozon of Political Culture and People Participation

Central Asia: Horiozon of Political Culture and People Participation

Horiozon of Political Culture and People Participation

by Mr Sumant Swain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014

The emerging political systems of Central Asian countries have given a new impetus to the world political scientist to add and theorise new democratic developments after the collapse of Communism. This book is a scholarly contribution which combines theory and practice of political culture and participation...
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