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The post-Cold War world has seen more internal conflicts than in-ternational ones. Just as the Cold War bipolar stability masked
intense and destructive regional conflicts,

The Kargil conflict of May-July 1999 just refuses to go away. A senior Indian Army officer was indicted recently for ignoring in-
formation that Pakistan had intruded across the Line of Control, but pinning the responsibility for this lapse on junior officers.

What are the paradigmatic affiliations of development econo-mists and how can a corrective development policy from existing literature and actual experience converge? What is the most appropriate institutional framework which should be adopted for achieving economic progress?

South Asia has attracted global attention, having experienced rapid GDP growth since 1980, averaging nearly 6 percent per annum.It is also true that the region has shown considerable resilience in face of global financial crisis of 2008–09. Yet the region faces many challenges.

Each day brings news of fresh horror from Pakistan—as I write this review it was the bombing of Data Darbar, a shrine dedicated to
Lahore’s patron saint, the Persian-born Abul Hassan Ali Hajvery. Revered by Sunni, Shi’a, Ahmediyya, and Hindus, this was perhaps the greatest possible moral insult to Pakistan’s cultural capital.Nations are ideas, states are bureaucracies.

The book under review is a compilation of papers presented at the Asian Security Conference organized by the Institute for Defence
Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in 2008, the tenth such annual event since it was started in 1999.

A theory of International Relations (IR) which purports to be cultural needs to grapple with at least three categories of problems.
The first concerns this whole business of grand theory. Dreams of a final theory, a set of immutable and fundamental truths about the universe which would explain everything that happens both in space and time, were seen even before Socrates.

A consistent lament of those teaching Political Science in India has been the general absence of globally competent thematic collections that address the specific requirements of an Indian readership.

Mahatma Gandhi once said that India’s soul lives in its villages. That may well be so, but there is increasing evidence that its
brain has developed in towns and cities.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz walked up the stairs to the high terrace of his house in Karachi, and looked down at the city that lay in front of
him. The country was going through a phase of intense repression under the rule of General Ayub Khan.

In recent years several books have been published on Indian cities. This is a healthy trend because the more we know about our cities,
the more effectively we will be able to mediate its development.

Mushairah is a poetic symposium in which contemporary poets congregate and recite their original poems. In its classical form, a Mushairah is a literary spectacle where poets of the day exhibit their tremendous creative energies, combined with deep imagination and emotional intensity in their poetry.