Journal of International Affairs articles from June 1997

Journal of International Affairs archives from June 1997

Statehood in South Asia.
June 22, 1997... In the vast region now known as South Asia at the beginning of 1997, most of the major states--including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka--have some form of democratic government for the first time since the formal British withdrawal...

Congress Decline and Party Pluralism in India.
June 22, 1997... The Indian National Congress party was founded in 1885 to petition the British government in India for administrative and political reform. Under British rule, the Congress gained experience in contesting elections and in governing at...

Anarchy in Afghanistan.
June 22, 1997... Almost 20 years of war have shattered Afghanistan. Today e country is divided into several hostile fiefdoms and anarchy reigns in much of the countryside. Putting back the pieces has been difficult, and the prognosis for peace in the immediate...

Uncertain Success: The Political Economy of Indian Economic Reform.
June 22, 1997... Introduction Over the last decade and a half, and especially since 1991, India has been implementing economic reforms to liberalize and globalize the economy by reducing state ownership and control and by opening up to greater trade,...

Whose Independence? The Social Impact of Economic Reform in India.
June 22, 1997... Introduction 1997 is the 50th year of India's independence, an appropriate time to critically assess the social, cultural and economic condition and independence of the country. Viewed from the wide boulevards of its cities, India seems to...

Economic Liberalization and Separatist Nationalism: The Cases of Sri Lanka and Tibet.
June 22, 1997... Overview At the poles of South Asia, the Sri Lankan state and the Chinese state in occupied Tibet are enmeshed in separatist movements.(1) The character and setting of those movements, however, are significantly different. Hindu Tamils...

Women, Population and Sustainable Development in South Asia.
June 22, 1997... Introduction According to the recently released 1996 revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections, at mid-1996, world population stood at 5.77 billion persons.(1) Between 1990 and 1995, the world population...

Financing Women Entrepreneurs in South Asia: A Conversation with Nancy Barry.
June 22, 1997... Nancy Barry is president of Women's World Banking, a nonprofit organization that seeks to expand low-income women's access to capital. Based in New York City, Women's World Banking has affiliates around the globe that provide credit, savings...

Local Control Versus Technocracy: The Bangladesh Flood Response Study.
June 22, 1997... Introduction Since 1947, development planning in South Asia has evolved into a battleground between alternative visions of society; government and human. Is democracy a luxury only wealthy nations can afford, or the best way out of...

Refugee Protection in South Asia.
June 22, 1997... Historically South Asia has witnessed substantial intra-regional movement and dislocation of regional groups fleeing ethnic or religious persecution and political instability. India's multiethnic, multilingual and relatively stable society has...

Future Uncertain: Indian Security Policy Approaches the Millenium.
June 22, 1997... Introduction As the end of the millennium approaches, Indian defense policy is in disarray A number of factors have led to a lack of clear goals and objectives. During much of the Cold War, Indian defense planners were preoccupied with the...

Negotiating the CTBT: India's Security Concerns and Nuclear Disarmament.
June 22, 1997... ".... [W]hen India and other developing countries proposed the NPT [Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] a global balance of responsibilities was envisaged. Those who did not have nuclear weapons would not seek to acquire them; those who had them...

The CTBT and Nuclear Disarmament--The U.S. View.
June 22, 1997... On the eve of its 50th anniversary of independence, India has puzzled other countries by its stance toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. Although India has historically championed the objective of global nuclear disarmament, its efforts...

Ethnicity, Security, and Separatism in India.(Review)
June 22, 1997... Ethnicity, Security, and Separatism in India Maya Chadda (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997) 286 pp. South Asia provides scholars with one of the most challenging examples of the supranational state's efforts to manage a population...

Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism: The Colonial Legacy in South Asia.(Review)
June 22, 1997... Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism: The Colonial Legacy in South Asia Asma Barlas (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995) 241 pp. How could two countries that were once part of the same political unit and shared the same history be...

Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny.(Review)
June 22, 1997... Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny Stanley Wolpert (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) 546 pp. Stanley Wolpert sets high expectations when he claims in the foreword of his new book Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny to have found "the elusive keys...

Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier.(Review)
June 22, 1997... Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier David Edwards (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996) 307 pp. The fact of anarchy has overwhelmed all other facts in Afghanistan. The war, the collapse of official...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order.(Review)
June 22, 1997... The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order Samuel P. Huntington (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996) 367 pp. After Samuel Huntington's article "The Clash of Civilizations" appeared in Foreign Affairs in the summer of 1993,...

The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State.(Review)
June 22, 1997... The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State Barnett R. Rubin (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995) 192 pp. In 1809, the first British emissary to the court of Kabul, Montstuart Elphinstone, wrote: ...