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187756
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Going by the economic growth patterns of China, India, Japan, South Korea and ASEAN countries with corresponding decline in the Western economic heft, it was often claimed that the 21st century will be the Asian Century. This might be in doubt due to the pandemic and geopolitical contestation between China and the US, where new faultlines are being drawn. Moreover, India and China being in a potential conflict zone, the dream of the Asian Century might have receded even further. But Asianism, given its intrinsic strength, has gone through its own evolution over the centuries, as the major Asian civilizations and cultures have interacted often seamlessly and occasionally competed with one another. Assimilation has often been the result. Ancient is intrinsic to the Asian thought, philosophy, and existence. Harmony with nature and a share-and-care attitude have been the hallmarks of the quest for eternal peace and co-existence. Yet, political Asianism has occasionally witnessed conflicts and wars in the name of supremacy and superiority which was hardly the real essence of the Asiatic value systems. The battle between the West and East accentuated them through the 19th and 20th centuries and the First and Second World Wars. The Western system moved forward, as Japan was defeated but eventually became part of the Western alliance system. India became independent and avoided the Cold War with the global governance architecture by virtue of her ancient mystical heritage and knowledge, new-found democratic credentials, a moral and principled stance reflected through her non-aligned approaches and pragmatic emphasis on peace and development for one-sixth of humanity, thereby leading the newly-independent developing countries from Asia to Africa, from the clutches of colonialism. This has provided India with an authoritative international voice of reason. And this is what will combine her software, powered by the civilizational heritage and universality of her cultural ethos, to enhance and extend her soft power appeal which is the subtext of her very existence.
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ID:
186286
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New Delhi, Pentagon Press, 2022.
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xx, 280p.hbk
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9789390095599
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 060206 | 355.56054/TRI 060206 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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164480
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Libya after 42 years of Gaddafi’s autocratic and “Green Book” driven rule was hankering for some kind of liberation and the youth wanted to freely fly . Hence when the so called ‘Arab Spring” happened in 2010 Libyans were willing to see a better change and create a “New Libya” of their dreams . Gaddafi was unpopular with the Arab and western leaders because of his independent occasional waywardness in the international discourse which was not palatable to the global and regional powers that were calling the shots in the UN and outside. Hence an engineered revolution supported by external military intervention aimed at removal of Gaddafi ensued but without any plan for the future because of which the seeds of current disastrous developments were implanted. All this became known in a few years thereafter and Libyan’s continued instability follows on. As for India which had good relations with Libya all through did not support the military intervention at the UNSC hence it was on the wrong side of the manufactured history and revolution and paid the price as popular dissatisfaction with India’s approach became visible in day to day discourse especially at the popular level. To correct the skewed perception was the immediate task of the new Ambassador and to secure India’s commercial interests the next despite the fluid security situation. Unfortunately the “New Libya” dream of common Libyans shattered in no time.
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167255
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Neighbours are a gift of geography in the geo-political sense. They have congenital problems and suffer from sibling rivalries like the humans and are complicated in their bilateral or multilateral discourse by the historic baggage or external inducements and machinations. Often land and territorial issues get merged with sovereignty dimension which become complex with engineered domestic politics of the country and the region.
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160751
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Korean Peninsula has been one of the most potentially volatile and dangerous regions since World War II. At the same time while South Korea made tremendous economic progress under the American shadow following the “flying geese” pattern, North Koreans achieved the nuclear edge and exceptional missile launch capability, mostly through clandestine means much to the chagrin of the regional and extra regional powers especially Japan, South Korea and USA as it had balked on the Non Proliferation Treaty and hence became a threat to the allies and the Hyper Power itself.
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163003
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On his first State visit, since his surprise election, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, President of the Republic of Maldives accompanied by First Lady Fazna Ahmed visited India from December 16-18, 2018 at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi .Apart from the ceremonial reception and meetings with the President and Vice President he held detailed discussions with the Indian Prime Minister and major initiatives were outlined in the Joint Statement issued after the meet.
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The biggest problem and the hotspot, as well as ever so simmering conflict in the West Asian region remains the competition and rivalry for exerting influence both religious and geo-political between the arch enemies Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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192911
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9/11 and the demolition of the World Trade Centre — the icon and emblem of
the liberal world — by Al Qaeda terrorists has been etched in the memories
of the world. Until then, the West did not think of terrorism as a significant
threat as they were barely dealing with it on their home turf. Countries like
India had suffered from cross border terrorism, extremism, and insurgency
from Pakistan based terrorists, engineered and nurtured by the Pakistani deep
state, for over two decades already. Geo politics was a convenient tool to
overlook the nexus of state and non-state actors, and they were selectively
used by big powers. This is well documented in the growth of the Mujahideen
and the Taliban. This nonchalance proved to be a disaster and demonic in
times to come. Only proforma concerns were expressed before 9/11, with
occasional intelligence exchanges with friendly countries. Terrorism, or the
fight against it, was a fashionable choice and not an existential problem. In
fact, many a time it was even justified on certain grounds, and implied goals
or a sympathetic view was taken. Zero tolerance of terrorism was an alien
concept — at least in practice.
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