The paper provides an assessment of India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In particular, it looks for explanations for India's inability to act as a conflict manager in its own region, which is in contrast to predominant assumptions about the role of powerful...

Papers presented at the International Seminar on From Land Locked to Land Linked : Northeast India in BIMSTEC, held at Shillong in 2010 and National Convention on International Relations, held at Kolkata in 2011

"After providing a brief overview of relations between India, Brazil and South Africa after the end of the Cold War, this chapter recounts the intellectual origins of IBSA, the motivations that led the three countries to create the grouping, and two instances of successful cooperation, one...

With insights into China's and India's histories, politics, economies and cultures, Bahl presents a well-written, fully documented, comprehensive account of the two countries' race to become the next global superpower. He argues that the winner might not be determined by who is investing more...

Act East policy : Northeast as a bridgehead to ASEAN / Shristi Pukhrem -- Northeast India's critical role in harnessing the three C's : commerce, connectivity and culture in Act East policy / Munmun Majumdar -- Act East policy and emerging economic geography in India's Northeast / Rakhee...