The contributions contained in the volume examine and discuss the problems and prospects of building a new Asia through cooperation in the field of security and development at both regional and Pan-Asian levels. Besides, delineating the contours of the changing dynamics of regionalism and regional cooperation in the various regions of the vast Asian continent, an abode for more than half of humankind, representing a wide spectrum of religio-cultural and ethnic diversity, the contributors also highlight the urgency of overcoming this diversity through joint efforts for development and ensuring security through non-military means in the spirit of the historic Bandung conference.
The book also draws attention towards the need for ushering in a multi-polar world to successfully meet the challenges of globalisation through intensified cooperation among the Asian states at all levels -bilateral, trilateral and multilateral. Notwith- standing, the heavy odds the contributors drawn from India and a number of Asian and Eurasian countries look forward to a vibrant and dynamic new Asia emerging out of the post-cold war era.
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Mahavir Singh, born (1955) at Jiwad, Bharatpur (Rajasthsan), did his graduation and post-graduation from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur and obtained his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. After having worked with the National Archives at New Delhi briefly, he served Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, as Reader (1990-98) and Professor of History (1998-2000) before joining as Director, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata in January 2001. A recipient of Commonwealth Senior Academic Staff Fellowship, he was a tVisiting Fellow at the University College London (UCL) in U K during 1995-96.
He has a number of publications to his credit including Soviet View of Indian National Congress (1991); Indians Abroad (2003), co-edited with Prof. S. D. Singh (Brisbane, Australia); Eurasian Vision, Felicitation Volume in Honour of Prof. Devendra Kaushik (2003), co-edited with Prof. Victor Krassilchtchikov (Moscow, Russia); India and Tajikistan: Revitalising a Traditional Friendship (2003) and has also edited four issues of MAKAIAS journal Asia Annual besides contributing several articles to other books and journals.
Introduction
1.Building a New Asian Security System through Regional Cooperation
Renewal of Bandung Spirit
Devendra Kaushik
2. Security and Cooperation in Asia Favourable Conditions and Adverse Factors
Du Yanling
3. New Asia: Development and Globalisation
Felix N. Yurlov
4. Imperialism - The Building of a New Asia
C.P. Bhambhri
5.A Preliminary Analysis of the Development of the Asian Regional
Economic Cooperation
Xu Yongquan
6. Strategic Triangle of China, India and Russia Ideal and Reality
Zhou Yuyun
7.Russia-India-China: Strategic Cooperation and a Pan Asian Order
R.R. Subramanian
8.Russia-India-China Cooperation: The Shaping of a Notion in Russian Foreign Policy
Hari Vasudevan
9.Stabilizing Asia: Regional and Global Challenges
R.R. Sharma
10. Status Quo or Big Leap Forward: Domestic Constraints and Civil Society in Contemporary Asia
Saradindu Mukherji
11. Reflections on India's Cultural Relations with South-East Asia
V. Suryanarayan
12. Central Asian and South Asian Cooperation Potential to be Used and Utilized
F.G. Teshabaev
13. No Alternative to Collaboration and Cooperation Between Countries
Surat Mirkasymov
14.Indo-Central Asians Relations and a New Asia
Surendra Gopal
15.South Asia and Pan-Asian Cooperation
D.R. Goyal
16. Eurasia Calling: Significance of Cooperation in a Changing World
P.L. Dash
17.India-Russia Strategic Partnership: Implications for Common Security of Asia
R.S. Yadav
18.Asian Powers and Central Asian Security
Ajay Patnaik
19.Regional Cooperation in Central Asia
Vasundhara Mohan
20.The Main Factors that Influence the Security of the Middle East After the Iraqi War
Zhang Jianwei
21.The Al Qaeda Threat to Southeast Asian Security: Problems and Prospects
S.P. Singh
22.Changing Dynamics of Regionalism in Southeast Asia
Shankari Sundararaman
23. Russia and the Asian Giants: The Problems and the Prospects of Cooperation (Energy Sphere)
Sergei Lounev
24. Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia: An Asian Forum
Meena Singh Roy
25. Japan and Asia
Sanjana Joshi
26.Problems of National Security of Kyrgyzstan in Modern Situation
Ainur Elebaeva
27.Mongolia's Security Concerns in the Post-Cold War Period
Sharad K. Soni
28.Regional Experiences in Solving Water Resources Problems in Tajikistan
I. Sh. Normatov
29.India and Asia: The Administrational Linkages for Security and Development
Hoshiar Singh
30.About Roots of Religious and Political Extremism and Dissemination of Terrorism
Askar Shomanov
31.From Shanghai Five to Shanghai Cooperation Organisation:
An Emerging Mechanism of Regional Security in Eurasia
Nalin Kumar Mohapatra
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