Alka R Gupta (5 results)

Condition: New. pp. xx + 273 Illus.

Condition: New. pp. xx + 273 1st Edition.

Condition: New. pp. xx + 273.

Contents Preface Abbreviations 1 Perspectives on security and strategy 2 South Asian context 3 Indian approach to security 4 Kashmir a critical factor 5 Bangladesh crisis and its aftermath 6 Internal unrest in Kashmir and post 1989 developments 7 War and 274 pp.

Contents Preface 1 Power politics and global civil society 2 The changing Asian family as a site of sate politics 3 Nuclear disarmament civil society and democracy 4 Depoliticizing democracy 5 Civil society and the development of democracy 6 Civil society 7 Global economy local politics indigenous struggles civil society and democracy 8 The ambiguous role of civil society in deliberative democracy 9 Hegemony democracy agonism and journalism 10 Contentious politics local governance and the self 11 Local governance institutions economic diversification identity 12 Everyday makers and expert citizens building political not social capital Bibliography IndexAlthough there remains considerable dispute about Global Civil Society whom or what it includes whether it is international or truly global and how it is constituted there is no doubt that the agents actors organisations ad institutions of transnational social and economic exchange and action exist But what is GCS Is it a space or locus of sovereign agents or merely a structural effect Does it wield compulsory power or it is a mere epiphenomenona a reflection of the state system Is GCS as institutional phenomenon the result of the exercise of power by other actors or is it a productive phenomenon constituted by the social roles and relations growing out of cotemporary states and markets 264 pp.…