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East of India, South of China
Amitav Acharya
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Description for East of India, South of China
Hardcover. Revisiting the question of contemporary Asian order and posing critical questions about the future of regional leadership in Asia, Amitav Acharya challenges the conventional wisdom that imagined the Asian order solely premised upon US-Japan-China relations and gave little attention to India-China-Southeast Asia relations. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: JPSL; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 402.
This volume will explore the role of India and China in regional geopolitics, with a focus on Southeast Asia. It highlights some of the key events and turning points in the evolving equations since the times of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indias first prime minister. In six chapters, it shows how Indias prominent position in devising the regional architecture in Asia was diluted after the Bandung era, especially after the Indo-China war in 1962. The author maintains that, relative to its earlier status as a major champion of Asian regionalism, India had become a political and diplomatic non-entity, if not a pariah, ... Read more
This volume will explore the role of India and China in regional geopolitics, with a focus on Southeast Asia. It highlights some of the key events and turning points in the evolving equations since the times of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indias first prime minister. In six chapters, it shows how Indias prominent position in devising the regional architecture in Asia was diluted after the Bandung era, especially after the Indo-China war in 1962. The author maintains that, relative to its earlier status as a major champion of Asian regionalism, India had become a political and diplomatic non-entity, if not a pariah, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780199461141
SKU
V9780199461141
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-11
About Amitav Acharya
Amitav Acharya is Distinguished Professor andthe UNESCO chairperson in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC, USA. His major publications on Southeast Asia include Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order (2001), The Making of Southeast Asia: International Relations of a Region (2013), and Whose Ideas ... Read more
Reviews for East of India, South of China
...a lucid and readable book that rightly asks us to reconsider visions unfulfilled, paths not taken and the historical background to present challenges.
Ian Hall, Griffith University, Australia, International Affairs
Ian Hall, Griffith University, Australia, International Affairs