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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Like other global powers, the UK treats South Asia as a cluster of uneven states where the process of regional co-operation has faltered and failed. The region's history and socio-economic and strategic realities demand an outlook that both addresses its key security and development concerns and widens the scope for co-operation in promising, yet-to-be charted sectors. While the power balance in Asia is in a process of realignment, the UK's alliance with India over and above other regional players may lead to tension that is both avoidable in the current strategic context and unproductive. A range of factors, such as the UK's historic linkages with South Asia, the current trend of bilateral relations and the focus of the UK's country programmes across the region, call for some innovation and realignment of the resources and a fresh strategic perspective.
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