The India Migration Bibliography covers over 3,000 books, research articles and reports written on the subject of internal migration, international migration and diaspora, related to India. The bibliography is inter-disciplinary and provides sections with selected publications by themes, regions, cities, overseas destinations and sample surveys. It will be of considerable interest to academics and non-academics working on migration related issues.

India Migration Bibliography

A probe of various regional power nuclear postures reveals that such postures, rather than simply the acquisition of nuclear weapons, can have differential effects on deterrence and stability dynamics. The India-Pakistan dyad is a useful candidate for exploring these various effects because the three regional power nuclear postures—catalytic, assured retaliation, and asymmetric escalation—have interacted with each other in South Asia. In particular, Pakistan's shift from a catalytic posture to an asymmetric escalation posture in 1998 against a continuous Indian assured retaliation posture allows the effects of nuclear posture to be isolated in an enduring rivalry in which many variables can be held constant. The asymmetric escalation posture may be “deterrence optimal” for Pakistan, suggesting that nuclear postures do have different effects on conflict dynamics, but it has also enabled Pakistan to more aggressively pursue longstanding revisionist preferences in India, triggering more frequent and intense ...

Posturing for Peace? Pakistan's Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability

The Time of Writing

The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet since 1947 (review)

humanities well but also had a solid knowledge of the natural sciences (see Nietzsche and Science, ed. Gregory Moore and Thomas Brobjer, 2004). Johnson rightly insists, against John Richardson’s Nietzsche’s New Darwinism (2004), that Nietzsche’s critique is not based on Darwinism as biological science but rather that it is directed against the philosophical fundaments of Darwin’s ideas (4, 10). Johnson convincingly argues that Nietzsche’s philosophy in his final years was premised on “a fundamental anti-Darwinism” (203). The Darwinian world-view does away with the Christian god as creator of meaning and value. This, for instance, enabled the early Nietzsche in the second of his Untimely Meditations to contend with David Strauss. Whilst the early Nietzsche philosophizes with Darwin, the mature Nietzsche philosophizes against Darwin. Johnson suggests that Nietzsche’s late philosophy can only be understood if his negative criticisms of Darwin are taken into account: he characterizes the mature Nietzsche’s relationship with Darwin as a “creative antagonism,” since Nietzsche regards Darwin as an equal opponent against the resistance of whom his own philosophy can be improved and refined. Johnson acknowledges that apart from Darwin there are in Nietzsche other “significant and productive rivalries—such as with Wagner, Schopenhauer, Plato, Pascal, Spinoza, and Kant” (14). According to Johnson’s reading, the Genealogy of Morals is a controversy which aims at undermining and disrupting evolutionary naturalism from within. He writes that “from within Darwinism, Nietzsche could locate the weak points, the inconsistencies, the metaphysical remnants of the Christian ideal, and his theory of active will meant that he could win for himself a position from which to attack the ascetic ideal” (205, 7). For Nietzsche, Darwinism is an instance of the life-negating ascetic ideal. Therefore, an important project of the Genealogy of Morals is to strengthen lifeaffirming Dionysiac culture against the predominance of nihilism brought about by nineteenth-century natural science. Johnson maintains that the arguments of Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals function as a polemic (7), stating that it is “a single and sustained polemic against the extension of Darwinian premises to the important study of man” (172). In my view, Johnson correctly claims that in Nietzsche Darwin’s own ideas are primarily under scrutiny and not social-Darwinist ones (4). Nietzsche thinks that they are modern “plebeian” ideas. He accuses Darwin that in his version of naturalism residues of Christian metaphysics and morality are still present and show up in such dichotomous notions as egoism and altruism and also in his use of imagery and metaphors (194–95, 48–50). He also identifies idealist leftovers in Darwin’s materialist theory. Nietzsche is concerned to demonstrate that there are ways to think about nature that deviate in important respects from Darwin’s approach. Nietzschean philosophers create values for science (and for culture as a whole). This means Nietzsche is not identifying science with philosophy. Johnson rightly says that in Nietzsche on Morality (2002), Brian Leiter is incorrect to assume a continuity of science and philosophy in Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals is not a “straightforward articulation of the biologist-naturalist preoccupations of the age,” but rather it is “polemical, culturally contingent, anti-Darwinian” (214). Johnson’s book is a significant contribution to the understanding of the role of Darwinism in Nietzsche’s thought and future work in this area will have to engage with it.

The Politics of Becoming European: A Study of Polish and Baltic Post-Cold War Security Imaginaries

This paper examines the location and production of liminality with regard to voting rights of Tibetan exile community in India. Liminality is related here to the legal and bureaucratic ‘inbetweenne...

Enduring liminality: voting rights and Tibetan exiles in India

Introduction Nuclear Stability in Southern Asia Nature of the Strategic Triangle in Southern Asia Indo-Pakistan Ties & Nuclear Confidence Building in Southern Asia Strategic Stability & the Evolution of India's Nuclear Strategy Nuclear Safety Nuclear Doctrine in South Asia Nuclear Stability, Deterrence & Terrorism Nuclear Stability in Southern Asia: An Indian Perspective Interview with General V P Malik Index.

Nuclear stability in Southern Asia

This article examines the EU weapons embargo on China as a major foreign policy challenge that China’s new leadership has inherited. The article argues that the continuation of the embargo constitutes a failure of Chinese foreign policy to project China as a responsible global player. The article examines the legal framework and the political debate within the EU to emphasise that the embargo has been largely ineffective in its objective of denying advanced military technology to China. The continuation of the ban, however, suggests that China, while becoming an economic and military power, is finding it difficult to overcome the significant political resistance to it being accepted as a responsible global actor.

EU Weapons Embargo and Current Chinese Foreign Policy

The Taiwan and the South China Sea disputes have seen the application of multi-pronged military, political and economic strategies by China. This became possible with the declining influence of the communist ideology in China's foreign policy and the consequential “thickening of the elite”. It would be erroneous to characterize China's policy as aggressive based on its declaration to reserve its right to use force to resolve these disputes. The two disputes are fundamentally different in terms of their linkages to political legitimacy and China's national objectives. While the Taiwan question lies at the core of Chinese national identity, the South China Sea dispute is linked more to economic and strategic interests even though the sovereignty issue is important in both. The dual need for making an assertive nationalist stand on the Taiwan issue and following a pragmatic economic policy resulted in a strategy of encouraging greater economic integration of Taiwan with the mainland even while not ruling out...

Chinese Strategies for Resolution of the Taiwan and South China Sea Disputes

The word security has a military connotation and refers to the activities involved in protecting or defending a country, in which the State has a central role. This book argues that the State provides as well as threatens security, and that by broadening the concept of security to include both military and non-military threats such as those related to ecological, social, economic and political causes, a system of checks and balances can be introduced to regulate the State.

Sonika Gupta

Papers

Enduring liminality: voting rights and Tibetan exiles in India

Nuclear stability in Southern Asia

EU Weapons Embargo and Current Chinese Foreign Policy

Chinese Strategies for Resolution of the Taiwan and South China Sea Disputes

Human security in South Asia : energy, gender, migration, and globalisation