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The Political Economy of Conflict in South Asia

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series

Editors: Webb, Matthew J.; Wijeweera, Albert

DOI: 10.1057/9781137397447

ISBN: 978-1-349-48496-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Oct 21, 2015

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Introduction

Webb, Matthew J.; Wijeweera, Albert

Pages: 1 –11

[South Asia comprises the states of Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan. It is an area of enormous opportunity, staggering diversity but also pervasive poverty and instability. Home to 1.64 billion people — roughly 24 per cent of the world’s...
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The Economics of Conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tract Region of Bangladesh

Islam, Syed Serajul

Pages: 12 –31

[Bangladesh emerged as an independent state in 1971 out of the separation of East/West Pakistan and the bloody war that ensued, and is largely attributable to conflicts over the division of political power and economic resources. It was expected that Bangladesh, being a relatively homogeneous...
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The ‘Political Economy’ of Sikh Separatism: Ethnic Identity, Federalism and the Distortions of Post-Independence Agrarian Development in Punjab-India

Chima, Jugdep S.

Pages: 32 –56

[The north-western Indian state of Punjab experienced non-violent mobilization by large segments of its Sikh population for increased regional autonomy during the early 1980s, and a subsequent armed separatist insurgency for an independent state from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. This initial...
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The Political Economy of the Ethno-nationalist Uprising in Pakistani Balochistan, 1999–2013

Siddiqi, Farhan Hanif

Pages: 57 –74

[In a seminal work on the ethnic history of Pakistan, the Soviet Orientalist Yuri Gankovsky (1971, p. 208) concluded his study on Balochistan by observing that: The Baluchis [sic] are the only one of Pakistan’s major peoples who had not consolidated into a bourgeois nation by the time when the...
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Nepal’s Protracted Transition: Explaining the Continuing Political and Economic Impasse

Kantha, Pramod K.

Pages: 75 –92

[Over the past two decades Nepal, a landlocked Himalayan nation of over 27 million people, has undergone a series of tumultuous political transformations. In 1990, a successful pro-democracy movement forced then-King Birendra to concede to a parliamentary system and a more titular role for the...
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India’s Indigenization of Military Aircraft Design and Manufacturing: Towards a Fifth-Generation Fighter

Charles, Michael B.; Sinnewe, Elisabeth

Pages: 93 –113

[India has traditionally looked northward towards Pakistan as a potential aggressor. Since the creation of the separate states of Pakistan and India in 1947, there have been four wars between the two nations, one of which was undeclared, in addition to numerous border skirmishes. One might well...
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The Political Economy of Pakistan’s ‘War on Terror’

Brasted, Howard; Ahmed, Zahid Shahab

Pages: 114 –131

[Studies on the impact of terrorism on an affected country’s economy tend either to be discussed from a comparative cross-country perspective in development terms, a method considered unreliable and highly speculative (Sultan, 2013), or related more to the counter-terrorist measures adopted by...
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Terrorist Activities and Financial Market Performance: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Wijeweera, Albert

Pages: 132 –148

[Terrorism is frequently indiscriminate in the methods and targets adopted to achieve its objective of sowing fear in a population. The apparently wanton ability of terrorists to strike at a range of targets is an important means of maintaining the perception of a pervasive, unpredictable and...
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Greed, Grievance and Violent Separatism in South Asia

Webb, Matthew J.

Pages: 149 –170

[‘Separatism’ is the advocacy by a sub-group (usually a minority) within a state for a measure of political, social or economic autonomy. It is a matter of degree, rather than a binary (all-or-nothing) feature, consisting in a range of positions along a continuum of special benefits, privileges,...
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The Himalayan Ranges, Glaciers, Lakes and Rivers: An International Ecological, Economic and Military Outlook

Vemsani, Lavanya

Pages: 171 –190

[The Himalayas contain the world’s third largest mass of ice which is a source for more than ten major rivers in Asia that support immense agricultural and industrial economies. Major Himalayan rivers such as the Ganga and Yamuna water almost half of India and support a vast industrial base,...

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