The Politics of Dialogue: Living Under the Geopolitical Histories of War and Peace (Border Regions Series) - Hardcover

Samaddar, Ranabir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754636070 ISBN 13: 9780754636076

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Offering a detailed analysis of post-colonial South Asia, The Politics of Dialogue discusses the creation and impact of borders and the pervasive tension between the new nations. Neither all-out war nor complete peace, this fragile condition makes political leaders and strategists feel claustrophobic - a war produces an end result but peace allows the rulers to carry out their policies for governing along their preferred path of development. The book shows how cartographic, communal and political lines are not only dividing countries, but that they are being replicated within countries, creating new visible and invisible internal frontiers. It argues that, in a situation where geopolitics constrains democracy, the political class becomes incapable of coping with the tension between the inside/outside, eg democracy appears as an internal problem and geopolitics appears as a problem related to the 'outside'.

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About the Author

Ranabir Samaddar is Director at the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754636070
• ISBN 13: 9780754636076
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396