Larry Diamond
The latest volume in this popular series focuses on the best ways to evaluate and improve the quality of new democratic regimes. The essays in part one elaborate and refine several themes of democratic quality: the rule of law, accountability, freedom, equality, and responsiveness. The second part f...
Sonia Cordera
AbstractBased on recently declassified materials from the Indian government archives and on the private papers of the principal secretary to the Indian prime minister, this article investigates how India formulated its response to the 1971 East Pakistan genocidal crisis that culminated with the thir...
Šumit Ganguly
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION (SUMIT GANGULY) 1. India-Pakistan Relations: Between War and Peace (Rajesh M. Basrur) 2. When Individuals, States, and Systems Collide: India's Foreign Policy Towards Sri Lanka (Neil DeVotta) 3. Indo-Bangladesh Relations: The Puzzle of Weak Ties (Milind Thakar) 4. Evolu...
Sunil Dasgupta, Stephen P. Cohen
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See C. Raja Mohan, "India and the Balance of Power," Foreign Affairs 85, no. 4 (July/August 2006); also see the writings of Harsh V. Pant, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/authors/581/harsh-v-pant. For a more comprehensive examinati...
Šumit Ganguly
According to the most recent UN data, 20.9 percent of Indian children younger than five are too short for their age (stunted), and 17.3 percent are too thin for their height (wasted). [...]despite a supine election commission, widespread fear-mongering about illegal immigration from Bangladesh, and ...
Gauvav Ghose, Patrick James
ABSTRACT Third-party intervention in ethno-religious conflict is an old phenomenon, although scholarly attention with a general range of application is generally new and uncommon. This study with attempt, through a systematic review of religion and other factors that can impact upon foreign policy r...
Bharat Karnad
Abstract Notes 1. For a recent piece of writing along this line, see Mitchell B. Reiss, “The Nuclear Tipping Point: Prospects for a World of Many Nuclear Weapons States,” in Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss, eds., The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nucle...
Southeast Asia KUMAR RAMAKRISHNA
In their admirable chapters, Sumit Ganguly and Alyssa Ayres argue that the roots of religious violence in South Asia are traceable ultimately to “British colonization” and the ensuing “production of Hindu-Muslim differentiation and violence.” The focus of their chapters, however, is on the legacy of...
Amita Shastri, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
Introduction: Democracy, development and identity - the states of South Asia five decades after the end of imperial rule governance: 1 political governance of India - the challenge of stability and diversity (Stanley Kochanek) 2 the fragile base of democracy in Pakistan (Samina Ahmed) 3 Bangladesh: ...
Šumit Ganguly
Accounting for the sources of ethno-religious confl ict in South Asia is not an easy task. The subject has become politically fraught and frequently not amenable to reasonable debate and discussion. Some scholars have sought to attribute the principal religious confl icts in the region to the conseque...
C. Christine Fair, Šumit Ganguly
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, CIA World Factbook, last updated June 10, 2013, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/countrytemplate_pk.html. 2. “India-Kashmir,” Ploughshares, March 2012, http://ploughsha...
Šumit Ganguly
With the possible exception of the noted Indian journalist, Sanjoy Hazarika, few scholars or analysts have written about the contemporary politics of India's northeast with as much knowledge and authority as Sanjib Baruah. An earlier book, Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast In...
Arthur G. Rubinoff
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes (t) = tied with school listed above it. Thus, in the US News rankings, Chicago and Iowa are tied with Stony Brook. I am grateful to Dinshaw Mistry and Kailan Rubunoff for their comments on earlier drafts of their paper. 1. Harold R. Isaa...
Šumit Ganguly
Unchecked Islamic extremism, combined with poverty, could undo democracy and create a new trouble spot
Šumit Ganguly
SINCE DECEMBER 1989, Indian security forces have been engaged in suppressing a violent secessionist insurgency in the Valley of Kashmir. The insurgency in Kashmir grew out of a fundamental paradox of Indian democracy: while political mobilization in the past few decades grew rapidly, political insti...