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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. The present volume curates papers presented at an international conference organized at OUCIP to engage with the oceanic turn in different fields of knowledge embracing Social Sciences, Humanities and, Physical Sciences to project the Indian Ocean as the new frontier of research across various disciplines. That this event coincided with a series of programmes launched in different Indian cities under the aegis of Project Mausam of Government of India was indeed fortuitous. The papers are divided into four sections: The Oceanic Reach has papers reflecting on the received knowledge regarding the historical role and reach of the Indian Ocean and providing new insights in the evolving dynamics of the region. The section Literature and Culture has essays reflecting the different trajectories within Humanities and Cultural Studies through which Indian Ocean has stimulated the imagination of scholars, intellectuals, diasporic writers, and culture historians. The section on Roots and Routes includes accounts of the historical, cultural, religious, trade and diasporic linkages across oceanic com-munities inhabiting the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean. The final section The Power Games includes papers that deal with the increasing interests of various international powers in the Indian Ocean region particularly in the context of the shift from the Asian land mass to the enormous presence of the Indian Ocean, and the economic, political and strategic significance that it has for the entire region. Taken together these contributions offer both an opportunity and a challenge for interested scholars to engage with Indian Ocean as a new frontier of knowledge with enormous potential for research and exploration.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Ethnicity, whether old or new has always defined and defied bordersand boundaries. It is both global and local in character. Itchallenges the received notions of state and nation and is in turnchallenged by globalization, internationalism, multiculturalism andthe overriding notions of modernity. The present collection is anedited version of some of the papers that were presented at aninternational conference on Ethnicity organized at OUCIP,Hyderabad. These papers focus on the changing notions of ethnicityand the challenges they pose to nation states in a world ofeconomic and political uncertainties. Ranging from the issues ofinvention and reinvention of ethnicity, the studies herein coverthe assertions of ethnicity in the indigenous context within anation state, to the analysis of the ethnicity and religion in theinternational context. The papers bring to the fore the nature androle of state as an institution in the creation, constructionaccommodation and suppression of ethnicity, the imposition ofnationalist discourses and the resistance from the margins, and thediverse impact of globalization on ethnic assertions in differentcountries. The papers cover the role of different kinds of states-- militarized, totalitarian, and democratic -- in the treatment ofethnic minorities as well as the shifting goals and shufflingpriorities of the ethnic groups aspiring for a stake in theirrespective societies indicating the fluidity of demands and theresponses of the state.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. It is very evident that much of the scholarly work currently done in the field of defence, human resources, strategic and development studies converges on issues which impact international relations both in policy formulation and its implementation through bilateral or multilateral arrangements. Issues such as Energy, Environment, Disaster Management, Technology, Food, Agriculture, Poverty, Health, Refugees, Migration, Trade, Political Formations among others, are now increasingly influencing global decision-making. The Osmania University Centre for international Programmes-OUCIP had organized and international conference to reflect on these issues. The present volume is an edited collection of the papers presented at the conference. Divided into nine parts, the essays deal with India's reach, role and responsibility as a soft power, her relations with immediate neighbours as well as the big powers in the decades ahead. It also includes essays on India's influence and contribution to regions like Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific as well as her ability to tackle the issues like Food, Water Energy and so on in her interactions with world community. Analyzing the multiple dimensions of India's foreign relations this collection will be invaluable for students and scholars of international relations and strategic studies.