21ST CENTURY SOUTH ASIA BY SANGHAMITRA SARKAR (HARDCOVER)

21st Century South Asia examines the issues related to security and its perceived threats to the South Asian region in the 21st century. Each chapter of this book deals with an array of security intimidation springing from diverse avenues in the region. These chapters minutely glance into the fundamental factors, causes, outcomes, potential actors and implications regarding security in the 21st century South Asia. Quite significantly, all the contributors collectively look forward to a secured South Asia and therefore suggest essential mechanisms and steps to be employed to attain such a safe haven. The objectives of the book are: a diagnostic study on security perspectives, analysis of the policy situation on security, and searching the broad roadmap on security. The book has been classified into two sections (i) traditional security and (ii) non-traditional security. It contains chapters written by eminent academicians, policy-makers, bureaucrats, senior diplomats, parliamentarians, national security experts, human rights activists, scholars and students. All the contributors have critically evaluated the origin of the various security threats that have ruptured the region and have provided some useful insight to the situation as well as offered solutions to overcome the security dilemma in the South Asian region.