ABOUT THE BOOK
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This book offers wide ranging
divergent perspectives on India’s role in managing and shaping Asian Security.
Issues that are dealt with in detail include major power rivalries, tensions
over disputed territories, freedom of Sea Lanes of Communications (SLOCs),
security dilemmas connected to military modernization, the robustness of
regional institutional mechanisms, India’s strategic partnerships and last but
not the least, the perspectives of major actors like the US, Russia, China and
India on Asian regional order: whether they view it as purely competitive or
cooperative-competitive. The debate on ‘Great Power’ status and responsibility
forms a critical part of the book. The importance of connectivity via road and
rail, and information infrastructure has been dealt with by several authors,
who at the same time, have also identified some of the challenges. The book
offers important ideas on how Asian security will shape up in the future by
utilizing the method of scenarios. It is an important contribution to the field
of Asian and regional security and India`s role in it.
ABOUT Author
fjrigjwwe9r0pp_Books:aboutAuthor
Dr.
Namrata Goswami is Research Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies
and Analyses, New Delhi. She specializes in ethnic conflicts, conflict
prevention, management and resolution, and international relations theory. Dr.
Goswami was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP),
Washington. D.C from October 2012 to June 2013, Visiting Fellow at the South
Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg (November–December 2010), the
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), August 2006 to July 2010
and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University,
Melbourne, from April to August 2009. She is a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru
Senior Research Fellowship, 2012-2013 and the Harvard Executive Education
Certificate in 2013. Her latest book published by Routledge (London), 2015 is
on Indian National Security and Counter-Insurgency: The Use of Force vs
Non-Violent Response.