Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409409856 ISBN 13: 9781409409854

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-South Asia relations have become central to understanding the future of the Eurasian continent. Mapping Central Asia identifies the trends, attitudes, and ideas that are key to structuring the Central Asia-South Asia axis in the coming decade. Structured in three parts, the book skillfully guides us through the importance of the historical links between the Indian sub-continent and Central Asia, the regional and global context in which the developing of closer relations between India and Central Asia has presented itself since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the precise domains of Indo-Central Asian cooperation, and studies three conflict zones that frame Indo-Central Asian relations: the Kashmir question; the situation in Afghanistan; and fear of destabilization in Xinjiang. The international line-up of established scholars convincingly demonstrate the fundamental necessity to define the Indian approach on these issues and provide cutting-edge insights on the tools needed to understand the solutions for the decade to come.

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About the Author

Marlène Laruelle is a Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA. Her main areas of expertise are nationalism, national identities, political philosophy, intellectual trends and geopolitical conceptions of elites in Russia and Central Asia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409409856
• ISBN 13: 9781409409854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Peyrouse Sébastien, Laruelle Marlène