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Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration livelihood and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets such as land infrastructure and housing and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city—social capital and community networks. In so doing the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular nuanced understanding of cities—of the interrelations between people in places everyday urbanisms social relationships cultural practices and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and engages with city-specific cases from Africa India and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience. Part of the Urban Futures series it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies urban planning urban management architecture urban sociology urban design ecology conservation and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists architects urban sociologists city and town planners policy makers and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city. | Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

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Balochistan and the Mélange of Violence Regional Context and External Factors

Balochistan and the Mélange of Violence Regional Context and External Factors

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the intricate security situation prevailing in Balochistan. It explores and establishes correlations between the internal structural vulnerabilities and fault lines of the Pakistani state with the external influences exerted on the region. Employing a rigorous examination of both primary and secondary data the volume critically examines the multifaceted nature of organised violence in Balochistan. In addition to separatist movements the presence of religious militancy and cross-border terrorism is thoroughly examined. The book delves into the external involvement of regional and global powers in the intricate tapestry of violence within Balochistan thereby shedding light on the emerging geopolitical landscape and the corresponding power dynamics in the region. It also analyses how the implementation of largescale developmental initiatives particularly facilitated by China under the auspices of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has elevated the geostrategic significance of Balochistan while simultaneously entangling it in the vortex of regional power politics. This volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers specializing in geopolitics International Relations and South Asian studies. | Balochistan and the Mélange of Violence Regional Context and External Factors

GBP 130.00
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Caste Matters in Public Policy Issues and Perspectives

Caste Matters in Public Policy Issues and Perspectives

Caste in India despite its historical resilience has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been on the decline castes as autonomous interest-serving groups have been on ascendance. This book critically engages with the changing notions of caste and its intersection with public policy in India. It discusses key issues such as social security internal reservation the idea of Most Backward Classes caste issues among non-Hindu religious communities caste in census caste in market and service castes and urban planning. Drawing on in-depth case studies from states including Andhra Pradesh Delhi Karnataka Punjab Tamil Nadu Telangana and West Bengal the volume explores the cyclical process of how caste drives policies and how policies in turn shape the reality of caste in India. It looks at the impact of factors like protective discrimination adult franchise and democratic decentralisation horizontal and vertical mobilisation land reforms and religious conversion on social mobility and traditional hierarchy in India. Empirically rich and analytically rigorous this book will be an excellent reference for scholars and researchers of public policy public administration sociology exclusion studies social work law history economics political science development studies social anthropology and political sociology. It will also be of interest to public policy and development practitioners. | Caste Matters in Public Policy Issues and Perspectives

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India’s National Security Annual Review 2014

India’s National Security Annual Review 2014

This fourteenth volume of India’s National Security Annual Review intensively analyses India’s national security with respect to the changing internal and external dynamics. In the global environment the situation is characterised by rising tensions between United States and Russia intensified rivalry between United States (US) and China and increasing cooperation between China and Russia. For India which seeks peaceful growth to emerge as a major power this poses severe diplomatic challenges. This volume discusses the complexity of these challenges and the deftness with which India gets the best out of its strategic partnerships with the US and Russia while warding off the transgressions of a mighty adversary like China. It also studies the impact of internal convulsions and external intrusions on India’s security from South Asian nations such as Afghanistan Bangladesh Nepal and Sri Lanka. Examining the field of internal security the essays carry rare insights into the causes of expansion of Naxalite violence in tribal areas and the dynamics of conflict resolution in the Northeast as well as India’s deep concern as a growing power with its economic slowdown in the recent past and energy and cyber security. Bringing together contributions from eminent scholars and diplomats the volume will be indispensable for policymakers government think tanks defence and strategic studies experts as well as students and researchers of international relations foreign policy and political science. | India’s National Security Annual Review 2014

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India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

This volume explores India’s role in the global governance architecture post–Cold War. It shows how with a rise in India’s capabilities there is an expectation from its external interlocutors that New Delhi ought to play a larger global role. As Indian policymakers redefine their engagements in the global policy matrix the chapters in the volume analyse India’s role as a challenger and a stakeholder in world politics; its uneasy relationship with Western liberal democracies; and its role in shaping new structures of global governance. The volume focuses on a host of critical issues including nuclear policy climate action politics India’s bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council humanitarian interventions trade governance democracy promotion India’s engagement with other emerging powers in platforms such as the BRICS the changing dynamics with its neighbours and maritime governance. A timely reimagining of global politics this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations climate change military and strategic studies economics and South Asian studies. | India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

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How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

In managing national security how Realist is India in terms of cultivating and using power and especially military power? A conventional view of India is that it has been uncomfortable with realism or ‘power politics’ as a guide to policy. This volume shows that it has been more realist than is generally recognized and that it has increasingly become comfortable with power in the service of its interests. The essays in this volume Examine the different aspects and types of realism in India’s national security policy Include a range of perspectives from academics as well as former military officers and diplomats Focus on India’s military and foreign policy in dealing with China Pakistan the United States Southeast Asia and West Asia. This key volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations defence and strategic studies and South Asian studies and to government officials journalists and general readers interested in the external dimensions of India’s national security. | How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

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India’s Strategic Culture The Making of National Security Policy

India’s Strategic Culture The Making of National Security Policy

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of India’s strategic culture in the era of globalization. It examines dominant themes that have governed India’s foreign and security policy and events which have shaped India’s role in global politics. The author Examines the traditional and new approaches to diplomacy and the state’s response to internal and external conflicts; Delineates policy pillars which are required to protect the state’s strategic interests and forge new relationships in the current geopolitical climate; Compares the domestic and international security policies followed during the tenures of Narsimha Rao Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh; and Analyzes how the Narendra Modi era has brought on changes in India’s security strategy and the use of soft power and diplomacy. With extensive additions drawing on recent developments this edition of the book will be a key text for scholars teachers and students of defence and strategic studies international relations history political science and South Asian studies. | India’s Strategic Culture The Making of National Security Policy

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Caste in Contemporary India

Caste in Contemporary India

Caste is a contested terrain in India’s society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines questions of untouchability citizenship social mobility democratic politics corporate hiring and Dalit activism. Using rich empirical evidence from the field across Punjab Uttar Pradesh Delhi and other parts of north India this volume presents the reasons for the persistence of caste in India from a new perspective. The book offers an original theoretical framework for comparative understandings of the entrenched social differences discrimination inequalities stratification and the modes and patterns of their reproduction. This second edition with a new Introduction delves into why caste continues to matter and how caste-based divisions often tend to overlap with the emergent disparities of the new economy. A delicate balance of lived experience and hard facts this persuasive work will serve as essential reading for students and teachers of sociology and social anthropology social exclusion and discrimination studies political science development studies and public policy. | Caste in Contemporary India

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The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject. Special attention is devoted to highlighting the complex relation between subjectivity as it is presented in the three critiques and the way in which it is construed in other writings in particular the Anthropology. While for Kant our cognitive apparatus and the structure of our will are common to all humans the anthropological subject reveals degrees of variation depending on a myriad of external circumstances that pose a challenge to the unity of Kant’s account and await theoretical solutions. The chapters collected in the volume delve into how the different shapes of human nature are not unrelated. They explore how and why different ‘Kantian subjects’ are closely connected at their core if not entirely unified. The notions of personality humanity and citizenship will serve as leading threads for the reconstruction of this possible underlying unity. An engaging read that promises to deepen our understanding of human nature the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy politics psychology social anthropology ethics and epistemology. | The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

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Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation in South Asia

Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation in South Asia

This book examines how bilateralism and multilateralism serve as cornerstones in bringing countries together to enhance regional cooperation. It explores the unfolding dynamics of bilateral and multilateral relationships in South Asia and looks at how factors like the absence of shared identities or common threats from external sources a lack of trust and suspicion are manifesting as obstacles for regional cooperation. With case studies from various constituent countries the volume studies themes such as economic cooperation in South Asia connections through sub-regional initiatives migration and refugee problems in the region SAARC and terrorism the Pashtun factor in Afghanistan–Pakistan relations India’s interests in ASEAN and BIMSTEC the nuclear dynamics of India–Pakistan relations India–Bangladesh connectivity issues Sri Lanka as a troubled island nation and Afghanistan’s relations with the Kashmir Valley. It discusses the implications of these long-standing issues that have stood as impediments to regional cooperation and bringing new perspectives to enable greater understanding and probable solutions. A comprehensive and accessible volume it will be useful for scholars and researchers of international relations international trade South Asian studies SAARC regional development international and multilateral trade political studies geo-politics strategic and defence studies and peace and conflict resolution. | Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation in South Asia

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Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

This book provides a synoptic view of the Indian Ocean and maritime security in its contested waters. Using a historical approach it reveals vital links to events in the present day. The volume: Highlights the competition between major Asian powers to control the ‘String of Pearls’ — a reference to the Chinese attempts at controlling the Indian Ocean periphery. Shows that cooperation amongst the major powers of the region could abate the threat of the potential of conflict becoming global and inviting external intervention. Discusses India’s Look-East policy and the deepening relation between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Argues for the need of Indian Ocean states and particularly the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) members of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to look afresh at their political and security issues and common interests. Suggests measures for evolving a robust mechanism of maintaining the Indian Ocean as a sustainable zone of commerce energy security and peace rather than threat. A major contribution on a critical area in Asian geopolitics this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of international relations politics defence studies and maritime security studies along with strategic affairs experts and think tanks. | Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

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Religious Offence and Censorship of Publications An Enquiry through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary

Religious Offence and Censorship of Publications An Enquiry through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary

This book analyzes the role of laws and the judiciary in the process of censorship in India. It examines the rationales and observations produced by the judiciary when demands for censorship are directed against publications that allegedly offend religious sentiments. Focusing on a micro-level analysis of censorship of publications it presents a hard case to understand the limitations of freedom of expression and the role played by the judiciary in defining its boundaries. The volume traces the evolution of laws governing freedom of expression since the colonial period and the context in which these laws were amended after Independence. It also explicates how the legal process – the structural and functional aspects of working of judiciary – affects the fate of freedom of expression in India. Employing comparative legal analysis it tries to understand and situate the Indian case within the larger discourse of censorship and freedom of expression around the world thereby marking its similarities and differences. In unravelling the politics of censorship the author also examines the interaction among different stakeholders like government non-state actors and the judiciary. A tract for our times this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law especially constitutional law and fundamental rights politics especially political theory and Indian politics modern India and South Asian studies. | Religious Offence and Censorship of Publications An Enquiry through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary

GBP 120.00
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Contemporary States and the Pandemic

Contemporary States and the Pandemic

This volume elaborately studies the challenges posed and impact made by the Covid 19 pandemic. Through detailed case studies it presents ethical political economic medical logistical and social impediments faced by contemporary states in the EU. The book focuses on the short and long-term consequences of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and covers issues concerning the world economy the EU economy as well as the Visegrad economies. The essays in this volume: Probes into the response of states to the economic phenomena resulting from the pandemic and analyses the institutional framework of the resulting crisis lapses in social communication social protests and the decline in democratic standards in countries such as the Czech Republic Poland Slovakia and Hungary Discusses issues related to state security under conditions of the pandemic the effectiveness of state and self-government administration the transition of states from an external controllability to an internal controllability model of power as well as challenges related to security in the digital space Presents policy actions at three basic levels i. e. at the global regional and sub-regional and investigate strategies of the UN WHO the EU and the Visegrad Group as they play the most important role in the fight against COVID-19 This insightful and timely volume will be of great interest to scholars researchers and anyone inquisitive about political theory public policy public health and social care international relations governance security studies and public administration. | Contemporary States and the Pandemic

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