Asia\'s Role in Global Politics

Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. India-Pakistan peace initiatives strategic implications/Farooq Hassan. 2. Japan in South Asia: a case study of Japan\'s ODA role in Nepal\'s development/Pancha N. Maharjan. 3. India\'s security concerns in South Asia: a case study of Nepal/M.D. Dharamdasani. 4. Geographical causation in Southeast Asian history/Y. Yagama Reddy. 5. Capital flows in the ASEAN countries/Gautam Murthy. 6. Emerging trend of economic cooperation: the India - ASEAN experience/T. Nirmala Devi. 7. East Timor\'s independence/Jitendra Dhoj Khand. 8. Developmentalism and environment in East Asia: a comparison between developmentalism in Japan and ASEAN/Fumitaka Furuoka and Mikio Oishi. 9. Experiences of economic reform in China with reference to privatisation and FDI/Bama Dev Sigdel. 10. Japan\'s relations with Africa/Aparajita Biswas. 11. Accounting for religious terrorism/Aswini K. Mohapatra. 12. Trends in trading patterns of Asia-Pacific/B. Satyanarayan. 13. Transnational networks of Indian Diaspora in Australia/Ajaya Kumar Sahoo. 14. Security concerns and refugees in South Asia/Yachana. Index.

"Asia constitute one of the most important region and civilization of the world cherishing the values of democracy, pluralism and liberalism. The twenty first century is now widely considered the Asian century. Further, the political and economic changes currently sweeping the world have given added importance to the region of Asia. Problems created due to the wave of globalisation has drawn attention both at the public and governmental level for creating cooperation and understanding among the Asian country.

Furthermore, in order to face the problems created due to unipolar world dominated by the United States, the Asian countries and the European Union should come closer politically and economically exemplified by Japan\'s initiative to reorient its foreign policy to come closer to India. India on its part is also rethinking to revive its concept of Asianization and Asian values to have better relations with both China and Japan.

The present work with its collection of diverse papers on the political and economic concerns of the ASEAN countries will be highly useful to the scholars and students interested in the politics of ASEAN countries."