Shibashis Chatterjee - Böcker

By mapping India's spatial imaginations underlying Indian foreign policy toward South Asia, Shibashis Chatterjee argues that India's understanding of its neighbourhood is informed by a politics of realism as South Asia remains a 'space' defined in terms of power and sovereign territoriality in contrast to alternative imaginations based on the market or community. This understanding is one of India's ruling elites consisting of politicians, cutting across party lines, key bureaucrats, army chiefs, and influential policy intellectuals. While alternative imagination/s of South Asia is indeed ideationally possible, the politics necessary to make this happen is virtually nonexistent. While India's relations with neighbours have varied with regimes over time, these have moved between fixed points of references, constituted by its imagination of South Asia as a space of power and territorial control. The book tells a story of India's spatial imaginations of its neighbourhood and reveals how the differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism still looms large on our shared ontology of social space.

This volume explores how we theorize, politicize, and practice peace and conflict discourses in the social sciences. As concepts, peace and conflict are intricately interwoven into a web of complementary discourses where states and other actors are able to negotiate, deliberate and arbitrate their differences short of the overt and covert use of physical violence. The essays in this volume reflect this eclecticism: they reflect on concerns of contemporary conflicts in world politics; the dissection of the ideas of peace and power; the way peace studies join with global agencies; peace and conflict in connection to geopolitics and identity; the domestic basis of conflict in India and the South Asian theatre including class, social cleavages and gender. Further they also process elements like globalization, media, communication and films that help us engage with the popular tropes and discursive construction of the reality that play critical roles in how peace and violence are articulated and acted upon by the elites and the masses in societies. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science, international relations theory, peace and conflict studies, public policy and area studies. It will also be a key resource for bureaucrats, policy makers, think tanks and practitioners working in the field of international relations.

This volume explores how we theorize, politicize, and practice peace and conflict discourses in the social sciences. As concepts, peace and conflict are intricately interwoven into a web of complementary discourses where states and other actors are able to negotiate, deliberate and arbitrate their differences short of the overt and covert use of physical violence. The essays in this volume reflect this eclecticism: they reflect on concerns of contemporary conflicts in world politics; the dissection of the ideas of peace and power; the way peace studies join with global agencies; peace and conflict in connection to geopolitics and identity; the domestic basis of conflict in India and the South Asian theatre including class, social cleavages and gender. Further they also process elements like globalization, media, communication and films that help us engage with the popular tropes and discursive construction of the reality that play critical roles in how peace and violence are articulated and acted upon by the elites and the masses in societies. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science, international relations theory, peace and conflict studies, public policy and area studies. It will also be a key resource for bureaucrats, policy makers, think tanks and practitioners working in the field of international relations.

This book examines how hegemony is validated, disputed, and embedded within modern international relations. It argues that the 21st century has broken from traditional patterns of hegemonic stability, showing instead asymmetrical interdependence, fragmented power, and competing claims to power and authority. By offering both Western and non-Western viewpoints, the book challenges the underlying principles and global consequences of dominance, particularly given the current instability of the liberal international order.This book provides a timely contribution to discussions concerning global power shifts amid a rapidly changing world. It will be invaluable to scholars and students of international relations, global politics, global order, defense and strategic studies, geopolitics, strategic rivalry, international cooperation, and political economy.

This book examines how hegemony is validated, disputed, and embedded within modern international relations. It argues that the 21st century has broken from traditional patterns of hegemonic stability, showing instead asymmetrical interdependence, fragmented power, and competing claims to power and authority. By offering both Western and non-Western viewpoints, the book challenges the underlying principles and global consequences of dominance, particularly given the current instability of the liberal international order.This book provides a timely contribution to discussions concerning global power shifts amid a rapidly changing world. It will be invaluable to scholars and students of international relations, global politics, global order, defense and strategic studies, geopolitics, strategic rivalry, international cooperation, and political economy.