ABOUT THE BOOK
fjrigjwwe9r0pp_Books:Description
With Central Asia
and the Caspian region having emerged as vital source of energy supply, there
has been a new quest for alternative and shortest transportation routes to
export oil/gas from this region to other countries, especially the South Asian
countries. The Middle East being in a flux, particularly after the Iraq conflict, the ongoing Iran imbroglio and now the war in Libya,
energy-importing countries have been diversifying their sources of supply.
Whereas Europe is looking towards Russian supplies, Japan
and China are keen to tap
the Russian Far East, Siberia,
Kazakhstan and
the Caspian region for their growing energy needs. China needs to boost its energy
consumption by about 150 per cent to maintain its economic growth rate. For India, with its huge demand for energy, Central Asia in its extended neighbourhood presents a
potential source of energy. Being the sixth largest energy consumer in the
world, India`s
crude imports are expected to double in a decade. India is facing logistic
hazards due to lack of common border with Central Asian countries.The
North-South Transport Corridor which seeks to restore the historic trade of
conventional commodities between South Asia and Central Asia by facilitating
faster and cheaper movement of goods from South Asia to Europe, and
establishing a strategic transport link between Asia and Europe via Central
Asia, Iran and Russia, is also beset with certain problems on the ground.
ABOUT Author
fjrigjwwe9r0pp_Books:aboutAuthor
Dr. K. Warikoo is Professor, Central Asian Studies
Programme, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University,
New Delhi. He
is the Secretary General (Hon`y) of Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation,
and Founder Editor, Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, a quarterly journal
published since 1997. His major publications include Religion and Security in
South and Central Asia (Editor) (UK, US and Canada, Routledge, 2011), Cultural
Heritage of Kashmiri Pandits (Co-Editor) (New Delhi, 2009); Himalayan Frontiers
of India (Editor) (UK, US and Canada, Routledge, 2009); Cultural Heritage of Jammu
and Kashmir (Editor) (New Delhi, 2009); Central Asia since Independence
(Editor) (New Delhi, 2004) and Afghanistan: The Challenge (Editor) (New Delhi,
2007); Bamiyan: Challenge to World Heritage (Editor) (New Delhi, 2002); The
Afghanistan Crisis: Issues and Perspectives (Editor) (New Delhi, 2002); Gujjars
of Jammu and Kashmir (Editor) (Bhopal, 2001); Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh:
Linguistic Predicament (Co-Editor) (New Delhi 1996); Society and Culture in the
Himalayas (Editor) (New Delhi 1995); Central Asia: Emerging New Order (Editor)
(New Delhi, 1995); Ethnicity and Politics in Central Asia (Co-Editor) (New
Delhi, 1992); Central Asia and Kashmir: A Study in the Context of Anglo-Russian
Rivalry (New Delhi, 1989).