International relations theory and South Asia: Security, Political economy, domestic politics, identities and images/ edited by E. Sridharan - New Delhi: OUP, 2011. - 417p.


Preface and Acknowledgements;
Introduction:
International Relations Theory and South Asian Regional Cooperation:
Security, Political Economy, Domestic Politics, Identities, and Images
(E. Sridharan);

PART I.: SOUTH ASIAN SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY
1. Structural Realism and South Asian Security: Theory and Practice (Shibashis Chatterjee);
2. Economic Cooperation and Security Theory: India and Pakistan (E. Sridharan);
3. Nuclear Deterrence Thinking in Pakistan (Rajesh M. Basrur);
4. American Foreign Policy and South Asian Security: A Decision-making Approach (K.P. Vijayalakshmi); II. Domestic Politics, Political Economy, and Relations between States in South Asia:
5. Unpacking National Interest and Foreign Policy: The Interplay of Domestic Factors and Systemic Constraints in South Asia (Mohammed Ayoob);
6. Perceptions, State Policy, and Community Sentiment across National Borders: Pakistani Attitudes towards Indian Muslims (Mohammed Waseem);
7. International Relations Theory and the Political Economy of Trade: India and Pakistan (S. Akbar Zaidi);
8. Gains from Trade and Structural Impediments to IndiaPakistan Trade (Asad Sayeed);
9. The Hindutva Worldview and South Asia: Orders, Borders and Others (Sanjay Chaturvedi); III. The Construction of Images, Identities, Worldviews and Normative Frameworks:
10. Deconstruction and Double Reading of the South Asian Security Order (Shibashis Chatterjee);
11. Normative Politics of Regime Formation: Human Rights in the South Asian Context (Siddharth Mallavarapu);
12. A Conspicuous Absence: Social Science Teaching and Research on India in Pakistan (S. Akbar Zaidi);
13. Hybridity, Imaginations and Diasporic Otherness: Challenge for IR Theory (Sanjay Chaturvedi);

Notes on Contributors





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