Download or read book The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation SAARC written by Lawrence Saez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an international organization comprised of the eight countries in South Asia. This work aims examine the institutional structure, objectives and effectiveness of the SAARC in its role as South Asia’s leading regional institution. Drawing on original research it offers a fresh and accessible account of SAARC, arguing that South Asia forms a unique regional security complex that enables certain forms of regional cooperation and bars cooperation on other issue areas. The text provides a comprehensive introduction to the SAARC, describing the historical developments that lead to its formation and examining key issues such as: The inner workings of Regional Centres and, their success in implementing the decisions reached at SAARC summits. How SAARC has sought to address critical new security challenges, such as health pandemics, terrorism, energy security South Asia’s economic cooperation and the South Asia Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) Challenges that expansion pose to the organization, particularly China’s suggestion to expand beyond the traditional borders of South Asia The work aims to evaluate what scope there is for formal institutions like SAARC to provide a permanent regional security architecture within which South Asian countries can effectively address important issues, and will be of great interest to all students and scholars of Asian security studies and institutions in general and students and scholars of international relations in South Asia in particular.
Download or read book Regionalism in South Asia written by Kishore C. Dash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic surge in regional integration schemes over the past two decades has been one of the most important developments in world politics. This book examines regionalism in South Asia, exploring the linkages between institutional structures, government capabilities, and domestic actors’ preferences to explain the dynamics of regional cooperation.
Download or read book South Asia in the New World Order written by Shahid Javed Burki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. The author argues that the developing global economy will be more complex than originally thought, that instead of a bipolar model with two countries, the US and China, at the centre, it will be multipolar with eight centres of economic activity, including India. The book goes on to suggest that in the context of such a model, there should be regional cooperation between India and its immediate neighbouring countries for South Asia to advance as an economic region. It argues that South Asia will need to look at its history, and that changes in attitudes, particularly in India and Pakistan, are necessary. The possible benefits to the region, in terms of increases in the rates of economic growth if the regional approach is adopted, are discussed. The book presents a useful contribution to studies in South Asia, as well as Asian Economics.
Download or read book Regional Integration and Economic Development in South Asia written by Sultan Hafeez Rahman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian leaders have made it a priority to tackle key regional issues such as poverty, environment degradation, trade and investment barriers and food insecurity, among others.
Download or read book South Asian Regionalism written by Chakma, Bhumitra and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading South Asia expert Bhumitra Chakma explains the politics of regionalism in South Asia and traces the origins and evolution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) from its inception to the present day. He takes an International Relations perspective and engages three major IR theoretical approaches – neorealism, institutionalism and constructivism – to explain the complex dynamics of South Asian regionalism. Using comparative perspectives based on the experiences of similar regional organizations, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges of cooperation in the region and explores how progress might be made in the future.
Download or read book Connecting South Asia and Southeast Asia written by ADBI and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report analyzes how closer regional connectivity and economic integration between South Asia and Southeast Asia can benefit both regions, with a focus on the role played by infrastructure and public policies in facilitating this process. It examines major developments in South Asian–Southeast Asian trade and investment, economic cooperation, the role of economic corridors, and regional cooperation initiatives. In particular, it identifies significant opportunities for strengthening these integration efforts as a result of the recent opening up of Myanmar in political, economic, and financial terms. This is particularly the case for land-based transportation—highways and railroads—and energy trading. The report’s focus is on connectivity in a broad sense, covering both hardware and software, including investment in infrastructure, energy trading, trade facilitation, investment financing, and support for national and regional policies.
Download or read book The Merits of Regional Cooperation written by Siegfried O. Wolf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights various cutting-edge topics and approaches to cooperation and regional integration in South Asia. Contributions from both South Asian and EU scholars carry the distinctive flavour of differing perspectives, in order to identify possible driving factors for regional cooperation. The book is divided into four parts: Peace and Stability focuses on how to combat terrorism and ideologies of hate, looks at governance in the context of cultural diversity, and examines the role of education in achieving traditional and human security; Economic Cooperation deals with potential EU-India trade relations as well as the issue of how to transform the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) into an effective and coherent economic space; Efficient Use of Resources analyses how the region can achieve more development; EU-South Asia relations elaborates on potential areas of cooperation between the two regions.
Download or read book Regional Cooperation in South Asia written by Bimal Prasad and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1989 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers.
Download or read book South Asian Cooperation written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Challenge in South Asia written by Ponna Wignaraja and published by United Nations University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the crisis of development, the associated crises of state and its impact on regional cooperation in South Asia. The resulting political and social unrest, violence and militarisation of state structures are considered in detail. The contributors to this volume focus on the depth of the crises and articulate alternatives available and sustainable in the South Asian context -- the common heritage, the renewable resource base and the available stock of knowledge which enlarges the range of technological options.
Download or read book Regional Cooperation for Sustainable Food Security in South Asia written by Nagesh Kumar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume foregrounds the importance of regional cooperation in the context of food security challenges in South Asia. South Asia holds the key to global achievement of SDG targets of ending hunger and malnutrition – it accounts for nearly one-third of food-insecure people on the planet, with every third child suffering from stunting due to malnutrition. Similar food preferences, production systems, and the transboundary nature of agrarian ecosystems call for coordinated action by South Asian countries, complementing national actions dealing with food security challenges. In this volume, leading experts discuss the perspectives of key South Asian countries in leveraging regional cooperation for addressing food security challenges and reflect on the potential of cooperative actions in different areas. The book proposes a ten-point regional policy agenda covering cooperation for combatting climate change, regional trade liberalization, operationalization of regional food reserves, leveraging technology, sharing of good practices, regional institution building, coordinated positions in multilateral trade negotiations, addressing trans-boundary outbreak of livestock diseases, strengthening food safety standards, and the management of shared natural resources. A key volume on accomplishing SDGs in the South Asian context, this book will be of immense interest to policy makers, researchers, and development practitioners. It is also essential reading for scholars and researchers in the areas of development studies, South Asia studies, food security, environment and sustainability.
Download or read book Energy Cooperation in South Asia written by Mirza Sadaqat Huda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the key political challenges to regional energy cooperation in South Asia. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy security and geopolitics, natural resource governance and South Asian politics.
Download or read book SAARC at Crossroads written by Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth Of South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation (Saarc) In 1985 Marked A New Beginning For The Seven South Asian Countries India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka And Maldives. For The First Time, These Countries Made And Institutionalized Effort To Forge Multilateral Cooperation Among Them. But, Even After Twenty Years Of Existence Of The Saarc, The Leaders Of The South Asian Countries Are Usually Much More Comfortable In Dealing With The Countries Outside The Region Than They Are With Themselves, And The Past For Them Remains The Present. Therefore, The First Twenty Years Experience Of This Regional Organization Can Hardly Put Saarc In The Sane Category Of The European Union(Eu) Or Even In That Of Association Of South Asian Nations(Asean). While The Latest Phase Of Globalization Must Have Forced The Leaders Of The Saarc Countries To Rethink Their Relationship Vis-A-Vis One Another And To Work For A Free Trade In South Asia, But The Turbulent Years Are Yet To Be Left Behind. But Why Could Not Saarc Succeed When Many Other Regional Organization Are Reaching New High And Who Were At Fault? This Book Is Humble Attempt To Find Probable Answers To These Serious Questions That Have Been Bothering The People Of South Asia For Quite Some Times.
Download or read book Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia s International Rivers written by Salman M. A. Salman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers' traces the development of international water law. This book focuses on the hydro-politics of four countries in the South Asia region: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It analyzes the problems that these countries have encountered as riparians of international rivers and how they have addressed these problems. In particular, this study reviews the treaty regimes governing the Indus River basin, the Ganges River basin, and the Kosi, Gandaki, and Mahakali river basins. Each of these regimes is described in-depth, with special attention devoted to the main problems each of these treaties sought to address. The authors also review the treaty experience and offer observations on bilateralism and multilateralism.
Download or read book Regional Cooperation and Development in South Asia written by Bhabani Sen Gupta and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a seminar organized by the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, April 1985.
Download or read book Towards Monetary Cooperation in South Asia written by Bal Krishna Madan and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Cooperation in South Asia and Southeast Asia written by Kripa Sridharan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comparative sketch of regional cooperation in South and Southeast Asia in the light of various political, economic and social developments in the two regions.
