ABOUT THE BOOK
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In the post-Cold War era,
there is a serious rethinking on the concept of the security. Nations have
started putting greater emphasis on the multi-dimensional character of security.
There is a sharp transformation of the concept from a narrow state centric
approach to a comprehensive security paradigm, based on the nation of human
security. Thus, the importance of non-military and diplomatic methods in
tackling security problem has increased. Problems of internal security
including armed separatist movement and domestic ethnic strife, destructive
consequences of drug trafficking particularly in developing countries have
altered the security environment. The issues like social conflicts, food
scarcity, underdevelopment, deprivation, poverty, civil war, climate change,
energy crisis, non-participatory governance, etc have become major challenges
to human security. The rate of financial growth is overcrowding the planet,
adding to the enormous pressures of the diminishing non-renewable resources.
This growth, at the root of much of global poverty, international migration and
environmental degradation are unprecedented. This does not mean to suggest that
the traditional security threats have become irrelevant. But the
non-traditional security concerns have gained much prominence in the present
context.
This book focuses upon a
number of non-traditional security issues that the South Asian countries are
facing with such as, governance, ethnicity, problem of refugees, migrations,
gender, food scarcity, health hazards, environment, energy and external
factors. The book tries to find out the role of SAARC in this regard and focus
to bring out a regional approach to security in South Asia. It is hoped that
the book will be useful to the students, academicians of South Asian affairs
and for the concerned policy makers.
ABOUT Author
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Dr
Saurabh, PhD, is Research Fellow at Indian Council of World
Affairs, New Delhi. He worked as a senior Lecturer in Bhim Rao Ambedkar
University, Muzaffarpur and at present on lien. His research expertise includes: human security,
development issues and foreign policy with the focus on South Asia, especially
Nepal and Bangladesh. He has written books on Human Security and Development.
He edited the first Sapru House Papers of ICWA and a book on Constitutional
Evolution in Nepal. He is a recipient of UGC-NET award in the areas of (a)
Political Science, (b) South Asian Studies, and (c) Gandhian Thought and Peace
Studies. He has presented many papers at national and international conferences
in India and abroad. He has contributed for various websites, journals,
magazines and newspapers. He received his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University
,New Delhi. Currently, he is working on human security and foreign policy
issues in Nepal and Bangladesh.
Prof.
B C Upreti is a senior member of the faculty of South Asia Studies
Centre, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. He is engaged in teaching and research
in South Asian Affairs for the last thirty two years. He has published more
than hundred articles in leading journals and edited books. He also
contributed in hundreds of seminars and
conferences. Apart this, he also contributes regularly in various newspapers
and magazines. There are thirty two authored, edited and co-edited books to his
credit. At present, he is the Director of South Asia Studies Centre, Jaipur.