International Relations in South Asia

Search for an Alternative Paradigm

Navnita Chadha Behera author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd

Published:16th Sep '08

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This collection explores ′state of the art′ methods to understand International Relations in South Asia, from disciplinary, pedagogic and epistemological standpoints. It probes alternative methods to comprehend international politics in the region: through constructivism, critical theories, post-colonial traditions of thought and feminist approaches.

International Relations in South Asia: Search for an Alternative Paradigm offers perspectives from various Asian countries like Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India and captures contemporary thinking with articles that are being published for the first time. It is a compelling read for researchers and academicians working in the fields of Political Science, International Relations, Strategic/Security Studies and South Asian Studies.

This book is a necessary reading for all the policy makers and academics interested in developing international relations as a discipline in the country.

-- The Book Review

This volume is thought provoking and enlightening.

-- The Tribune

This book probes alternative methods to comprehend international relations in the region through critical theories, post-colonial traditions of thought and feminist approaches.

-- Sunday Pioneer

[This book] is one such intellectual endeavour by a devoted group of IR scholars in search of new paradigm and, as such it is most welcome…The book is full of a variety of new approaches with potential for theory building…I commend the book to all the aspiring and established researchers and teachers of IR all over the world, especially in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The book is a must for all research libraries and think tanks in India and in the West.

-- Freedom F

ISBN: 9788178298702

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 510g

352 pages