India's Rise as an Asian Power: Nation, Neighborhood, and Region

by Sandy Gordon

Overview

This book examines India’s rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626160743
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	10/15/2014
Series:	South Asia in World Affairs series
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sandy (Alexander) Gordon is a visiting fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University (ANU). Previously, he worked as an academic at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Wollongong University, and at ANU, from where he retired as professor in 2011. As a public servant, he worked in Australia’s Office of National Assessments; AusAID; as executive director of the Asian Studies Council; and as head of intelligence, Australian Federal Police. He is the author of several books.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Governance and the "Hybrid Inheritance" 2. Enmeshed Dissonance in South Asia 3. South Asian Dissonance, Global Factors, and Global Power Competition 4. Wider Regional Implications5. The Government Response: Domestic Governance and Security 6. External Strategies and Challenges: From Neighborhood to Region

Conclusion

Bibiliography

Index

What People are Saying About This

Eswaran Sridharan

This excellent book combines scholarly analysis based on a wealth of empirical material with policy prescriptions. The conceptual innovation is the use of neighborhood, not region, for South Asia, and region for the larger Asian and Indian Ocean space.

From the Publisher

"This excellent book combines scholarly analysis based on a wealth of empirical material with policy prescriptions. The conceptual innovation is the use of neighborhood, not region, for South Asia, and region for the larger Asian and Indian Ocean space." -- Eswaran Sridharan, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India

Editorial Reviews

Presents a useful, and perhaps necessary, reality check to those willing to overlook or wish away many of India's complications and contradictions.

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