BOOKS
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Publisher: Springer
Year of Publication: 2021
About the Book
This book explores the struggle between China and the United States to expand their influence in Asia through economic assistance and defensive alliances. It brings together the diverse viewpoints of scholars from various countries on how Asian countries will exploit this geostrategic competition to pursue their national interests, while also balancing their relations with the two great powers. The book offers a valuable asset for all those who have an interest in great power politics and international relations, especially academics, policy makers and security experts.
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Publisher: GB Books
Year of Publication: 2022
About the Book
International politics is the realm where great powers constantly seek opportunities to expand their hegemonic role. In this realm, small states on the periphery of great powers face intense pressures, leading to limits on their sovereignty. Nepal, a landlocked country between China and India, is a classic case of a small state striving to preserve its sovereignty. The two Asian powers have been locked in an intense security competition to expand their hegemony in Nepal.
‘Northern Neighbour Southern Concern: Political, Economic and Strategic Dimensions of Nepal-China Relations’ delves deeper into multiple nuances of Nepal’s foreign policy with China. The book focuses on the development of Nepal’s relation with China after the reintroduction of democracy in Nepal through the first People’s Movement of 1990. It traces Nepal’s ties with China through the most crucial and momentous of the changes in Nepal’s history. In broad strokes, the book discusses China’s strategic imperatives and needs vis-à-vis Nepal and examines the political, economic and strategic ties between the two. In tandem, it looks south to analyse the ways in which India, with its long history of involvement in Nepal, viewed the emerging Kathmandu-Beijing rapprochement. The book juxtaposes Nepal’s relations with China against those with India, and critically analyses the Indian reaction and response to Kathmandu’s diplomatic overtures to Beijing.
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Publisher: GB Books and Khabarhub
Year of Publication: 2022
About the Book
South Asia throughout history and at the current times has been an autonomous strategic unit. Several ongoing geopolitical developments and the increasing competition among the major powers have made South Asia more complex today. While the Indo-Pacific region has emerged as a key theatre of engagement with the return of great power competition, the region has been attracting a lot of attention. These developments will certainly have a long-standing impact on both the regions.
The book ‘Geopolitics of South Asian and the Indo Pacific Region’ consists of interviews conducted with policy makers, academicians, senior scholars, diplomats, ambassadors and practitioners for Nepal’s largest digital media Khabarhub during my involvement with them as Strategic Affairs Editor from August 2021 to Jan 2021. There is a total of 36 interviews on the geopolitics of South Asia and Indo pacific affairs, Nepal’s engagement in the region, India’s Foreign Policy, and several other issues. The diverse perspective from countries like Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, the European Union, Israel, The United States, France, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Norway and Malaysia have been included in the book.
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Publisher: GB Books and Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement
Year of Publication: 2022
About the Book
Gender disparities remain high in the South Asia region, yet at the same time there is a growing recognition of the potential of social protection programmes, including for women’s empowerment. In spite of the remarkable progress in terms of human development in recent years, the region still faces significant gender disparities and the gender-based violence has soared in South Asia, especially during the pandemic. Discriminatory social norms, lack of adequate social protection system, forced marriage and lack of access to basic facilities such as health, nutrition, education and employment are some of the major factors. The book consists of 17 chapters from scholars of South Asia who looks different aspects that women of South Asia struggle for.