The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World by Manu Bhagavan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus particularly on the idea of One World, One Planet, One Nations (OWW) and One Planet for India's engagement with the United Nations.
Abstract: *The reviewer is Research Assistant at IDSA, New Delhi. There have been several accounts of India's engagement with the United Nations but this book focuses particularly on the idea of One World, s...
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TL;DR: In the past, India had little choice but to be content with rule taking - adhering to existing international norms and institutions as mentioned in this paper, but it increasingly has the ideas, people, and tools to shape the global order - in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, "not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially".
Abstract: India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized, even as geopolitical shifts create both opportunities and challenges. With critical interests in almost every multilateral regime and vital stakes in emerging ones, India has no choice but to influence the evolving multilateral order. If India seeks to affect the multilateral order, how will it do so? In the past, it had little choice but to be content with rule taking - adhering to existing international norms and institutions. Will it now focus on rule breaking - challenging the present order primarily for effect and seeking greater accommodation in existing institutions? Or will it focus on rule shaping - contributing in partnership with others to shape emerging norms and regimes, particularly on energy, food, climate, oceans, and cyber security? And how do India's troubled neighborhood, complex domestic politics, and limited capacity inhibit its rule-shaping ability? Despite limitations, India increasingly has the ideas, people, and tools to shape the global order - in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, "not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially". Will India emerge as one of the shapers of the emerging international order? This volume seeks to answer that question.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a 6.6-chapter approach to the problem of self-defense in the field of cyber-physical learning.1.5.6 Chapter
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TL;DR: More than sixty-five years after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, controversy about partition, its causes and its effects, continues, and it is perhaps time, in the wake of India's recent elections, to take stock once again of how these debates have developed in the last several decades and where they are heading as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: More than sixty-five years after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, controversy about partition, its causes and its effects, continues. Yet the emphases in these debates have changed over the years, and it is perhaps time, in the wake of India's recent elections, to take stock once again of how these debates have developed in the last several decades and where they are heading. What gives these controversies particular significance is that they are not just about that singular event, but about the whole trajectory of India's modern history, as interpreted through partition's lens—engaging academic historians, even as they continue to be deeply enmeshed in ongoing political conflict in South Asia, and, indeed, in the world more broadly.
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01 Sep 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 till the Tashkent Summit in January 1966 is presented.
Abstract: This thesis is a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 till the Tashkent Summit in January 1966. By focusing on Kashmir’s under-researched transnational dimensions, it represents a different approach to this intractable territorial conflict. Concentrating on the global context(s) in which the dispute unfolded, it argues that the dispute’s evolution was determined by international concerns that existed from before and went beyond the Indian subcontinent. Based on new and diverse official and personal papers across four countries, it foregrounds the Kashmir dispute in a twin setting of Decolonisation and the Cold War and investigates the international understanding around it within the imperatives of these two processes. In doing so, it traces Kashmir’s journey from being a residual irritant of the British Indian Empire, to becoming a Commonwealth embarrassment and its eventual metamorphosis into a security concern in the Cold War climate(s). A princely state of exceptional geo-strategic location, complex religious composition and unique significance in the context of Indian and Pakistani notions of nation and statehood, Kashmir also complicated their relations with Britain, the United States, Soviet Union, China, the Commonwealth countries and the Afro-Arab-Asian world. The thesis begins with British anxieties regarding independent India’s international identity that arose in 1945-47 and covers the international involvement in the first Kashmir conflict (1947-49). Next, it undertakes a survey of the initial American attitude to India (1945-47) and situates the early American approach to Kashmir (1947-49) in that light. The thesis then shows the transformation of Kashmir from being a Commonwealth concern to becoming an American affair (1949-53). Further, it traces the dispute’s transition from the prism of Western pact-politics to that of Subcontinental package proposal (1953-61). The thesis ends with comparing the last Anglo-American intervention in Kashmir (1962-63) with its Soviet counterpart (1965-66).
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of video games.2.3.2
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TL;DR: In the past, India had little choice but to be content with rule taking - adhering to existing international norms and institutions as mentioned in this paper, but it increasingly has the ideas, people, and tools to shape the global order - in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, "not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially".
Abstract: India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized, even as geopolitical shifts create both opportunities and challenges. With critical interests in almost every multilateral regime and vital stakes in emerging ones, India has no choice but to influence the evolving multilateral order. If India seeks to affect the multilateral order, how will it do so? In the past, it had little choice but to be content with rule taking - adhering to existing international norms and institutions. Will it now focus on rule breaking - challenging the present order primarily for effect and seeking greater accommodation in existing institutions? Or will it focus on rule shaping - contributing in partnership with others to shape emerging norms and regimes, particularly on energy, food, climate, oceans, and cyber security? And how do India's troubled neighborhood, complex domestic politics, and limited capacity inhibit its rule-shaping ability? Despite limitations, India increasingly has the ideas, people, and tools to shape the global order - in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, "not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially". Will India emerge as one of the shapers of the emerging international order? This volume seeks to answer that question.
48 citations
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a 6.6-chapter approach to the problem of self-defense in the field of cyber-physical learning.1.5.6 Chapter
Abstract: 6 Chapter
47 citations
TL;DR: More than sixty-five years after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, controversy about partition, its causes and its effects, continues, and it is perhaps time, in the wake of India's recent elections, to take stock once again of how these debates have developed in the last several decades and where they are heading as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: More than sixty-five years after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, controversy about partition, its causes and its effects, continues. Yet the emphases in these debates have changed over the years, and it is perhaps time, in the wake of India's recent elections, to take stock once again of how these debates have developed in the last several decades and where they are heading. What gives these controversies particular significance is that they are not just about that singular event, but about the whole trajectory of India's modern history, as interpreted through partition's lens—engaging academic historians, even as they continue to be deeply enmeshed in ongoing political conflict in South Asia, and, indeed, in the world more broadly.
43 citations
Dissertation•
01 Sep 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 till the Tashkent Summit in January 1966 is presented.
Abstract: This thesis is a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 till the Tashkent Summit in January 1966. By focusing on Kashmir’s under-researched transnational dimensions, it represents a different approach to this intractable territorial conflict. Concentrating on the global context(s) in which the dispute unfolded, it argues that the dispute’s evolution was determined by international concerns that existed from before and went beyond the Indian subcontinent. Based on new and diverse official and personal papers across four countries, it foregrounds the Kashmir dispute in a twin setting of Decolonisation and the Cold War and investigates the international understanding around it within the imperatives of these two processes. In doing so, it traces Kashmir’s journey from being a residual irritant of the British Indian Empire, to becoming a Commonwealth embarrassment and its eventual metamorphosis into a security concern in the Cold War climate(s). A princely state of exceptional geo-strategic location, complex religious composition and unique significance in the context of Indian and Pakistani notions of nation and statehood, Kashmir also complicated their relations with Britain, the United States, Soviet Union, China, the Commonwealth countries and the Afro-Arab-Asian world. The thesis begins with British anxieties regarding independent India’s international identity that arose in 1945-47 and covers the international involvement in the first Kashmir conflict (1947-49). Next, it undertakes a survey of the initial American attitude to India (1945-47) and situates the early American approach to Kashmir (1947-49) in that light. The thesis then shows the transformation of Kashmir from being a Commonwealth concern to becoming an American affair (1949-53). Further, it traces the dispute’s transition from the prism of Western pact-politics to that of Subcontinental package proposal (1953-61). The thesis ends with comparing the last Anglo-American intervention in Kashmir (1962-63) with its Soviet counterpart (1965-66).
21 citations
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of video games.2.3.2
Abstract: 2
20 citations