Table of Contents

Preface Introduction 1. Governance and the "Hybrid Inheritance" 2. Enmeshed Dissonance in South Asia 3. South Asian Dissonance, Global Factors, and Global Power Competition 4. Wider Regional Implications5. The Government Response: Domestic Governance and Security 6. External Strategies and Challenges: From Neighborhood to Region Conclusion Bibiliography Index

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This excellent book combines scholarly analysis based on a wealth of empirical material with policy prescriptions. The conceptual innovation is the use of neighborhood, not region, for South Asia, and region for the larger Asian and Indian Ocean space. -- Eswaran Sridharan, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India

About the Author

Sandy (Alexander) Gordon is a visiting fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University (ANU). Previously, he worked as an academic at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Wollongong University, and at ANU, from where he retired as professor in 2011. As a public servant, he worked in Australia's Office of National Assessments; AusAID; as executive director of the Asian Studies Council; and as head of intelligence, Australian Federal Police. He is the author of several books.

Reviews

Presents a useful, and perhaps necessary, reality check to those willing to overlook or wish away many of India's complications and contradictions.
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