Email this article 
Hide
Show all
INDIA’S RESPONSE TO NEW GREAT GAME IN CENTRAL ASIA
Abstract
The power vacuum created with the fall of USSR had made Central Asia the focal point for contestation among both the regional like Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, India and External players for influence, power, hegemony racing to establish links via through roads, pipelines, air routes, alliances and what not. These great powers made central Asian region as a chessboard for outsmarting one another through cleverness and wit and at times adapting policies of appeasement. In other words, Central Asia has become a “zone of intense, complex interaction between local conditions and the larger world system. India being one of the contestants though small and later comer have found a significant place as for as its connections, policies and strategies vis-à-vis Central Asia is concerned. The paper is an attempt to analyze the place of India vis-à-vis other players of the region.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Abilov, Shamkhal. “The “New Great Game” Over the Caspian Region: Russia, the USA, and China in the Same Melting Pot.” Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 15, no. 1 (2012, p. 37): 29-60. Accessed June 12, 2013.http://jhss-khazar.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/New-Great-Game.pdf
Ahrari, M. E. and James Beal. The New Great Game in Muslim central Asia,McNair Paper 47(Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defence University, Washington D.C). (January 1996): 2. Accessed October 04, 2013.http://www.dtic.mi l/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA421825
Akbar, Zehra. “Central Asia: The New Great Game.” The Washington Review of Turkish and Eurasian Affairs (October 2012): 2. Accessed April 12, 2013.
BP Statistical Review of World Energy. “What’s inside?”(June 2010): 7 and 11. Accessed May 21, 2013.http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/reports_and_publications/statistical_energy_review_2008/STAGING/local_assets/2010_downloads/statistical_review_of_world_energy_full_report_2010.pdf.
Canfield, Robert L. and Gabriele Rasuly-Palecze, (eds.). Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia: New Games Great and Small (Central Asian Studies). New York: Taylor & Francis, 2010, 1 and 7.
Chow, Edward C. and Leigh E. Hendrix. “Central Asia’s Pipelines: Field of Dreams and Reality.” 2010. The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) Special Report 23. Accessed May 23, 2013.http://csis.org/files/publication/1009_EChow_LHendrix_CentralAsia.pdf
Cooley, Alexander. “The New Great Power Arena.” Post-War Watch (Analyzing The Middle East After A Decade Of Conflict). November 30, 2012. Accessed June 13, 2013.http://postwarwa tch.com/2012/11/30/the-new-great-power-arena/
Dikshit, Standee. “India-China Border Row Let Joint Mechanism Find A Solution, Says Khurshid.” The Hindu. April 26, 2013. Accessed May 22, 2013.http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/let-joint-mechanism-find-a-solution-says-khurshid/article4654123.ece
Edwards, Mathew. "The New Great Game and the New Great Gamers: Disciples of Kipling and Mackinder." Central Asian Survey 22, no. 1 (2003): 84-85.
Escobar, Pepe. “China takes Pipelinestan.” The American Conservative. October 12, 2010. Accessed on November 10, 2013.http://www.theamericanc onservative.com/articles/china-takes-pipelinestan
Escobar, Pepe. “Tomgram: Pipelnestan’s new Silk Road.” TomDispatch.com. October 12, 2010, 7 Accessed June 17, 2013. http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175306/tomgram%3A_pepe_escobar,_pipelineistan's_new_silk_road/
Godement, François. The New Great Game in Central Asia, China Analysis (European Council on Foreign Relations), (September 2011): 7. Accessed May 15, 2013.http://www.ecfr.eu /page//China%20-Analysis_The%20new%20Great%20Game%20in%20Central%20Asia_September2011.pdf
Haté, Vibhuti. India’s “Look West” Policy: Why Central Asia matters, South Asia Monitor (Centre for strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.), no. 110 (September 5, 2007): 2 and 4. Accessed June 2, 2013.http://csis.org/files/me dia/csis/pubs/sam110.pdf
“India Airlifts Military Hospital to Tajkistan.”Central Asian Newswire.April 18, 2013, 4.Accessed June 16, 2013.http://www.universalnewswires.com/centralasia/international/viewstory.aspx?id=14000
“India’s ‘Look West’ Policy: Why Central Asia matters, South Asia Monitor (Centre for strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C.), no. 110 (September 5, 2007): 2 and 4. Accessed June 2, 2013.http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/sam110.pdf
“India, Tajikistan Discuss Cooperation in Countering Cross-border Terrorism.”News Track India. April 15 2013. p. 3.http://newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2013/04/15/199-India-Tajikistan-discuss-cooperation-in-countering-cross-border-terrorism.html
Jaffe, Amy Myers. “Unlocking the Assets: Energy and the Future of Central Asia and the Caucasus.” The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Of Rice University. Main Study (April 1998): 2. Accessed on June 18, 2012, http://bakerinstitute.org/media/files/Research/98fba438/unlocking-the-assets-energy-and-the-future-of-central-asia-and-the-caucasus-working-papers.pdf
Jonson, Lena. Tajikistan in the New Central Asia Geopolitics, Great Power Rivalry and Radical Islam. London: L. B.Tauris& Co Ltd..2006, 3 and 6.
Joshi, Nirvana, (ed.). Reconnecting India and Central Asia: Emerging Security and Economic Dimensions. Singapore: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program, 2010, 1.
Kavalski, Emilian. The New Central Asia the Regional Impact of International Actors. London: World Scientific. Publishing, 2010, 2, 4, 9, 16, 106, 239-240, 246, 248, 253.
Khalid, Adeeb. Islam after Communism Religion and Politics in Central Asia. London: University of California Press, London, 2007, 220.
Kleveman, Lutz. The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia. New York: Library of Congress, 2003. P. 118.
Kumar, Vinay. “India, Tajikistan stress stakes in Afghan Peace.” The Hindu.April 16, 2013. Accessed June 05, 2013.http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-tajikistan-stress-stakes-in-afghan-peace/article4620799.ece
Mackinder, H. J. Democratic Ideals and Reality. Washington, DC.: National Defence University Press, 1996, 175-181. Accessed October 5, 2013.
http://mercury.ethz.ch/serviceengine/Files/ISN/139619/ipublicationdocument_singledocument/-eda9e313-7e1b-41f3-a9d7-44b84da4ae5f/en/1942_Democratic_Ideals_Reality.pdf
Mackinder, H. J. “The Geographical Pivot of History.” The Geographical Journal 23, no. 4 (April 1904): 4421-4437. Accessed October 5, 2013.
http://stoa.usp.br/danilousp/files/1457/16432/Geographical+Pivot+at+History+(Mackinder).pdf
Moore, Scott. “Peril and promise: a survey of India's strategic relationship with Central Asia.” Central Asian Survey 26, no. 2 (2007): 2.
Pant,Harsh V. Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy India Negotiates Its Rise in the International System. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 120.
Roy, J. N., and B. B. Kumar (eds.). India and Central Asia: Classical to Contemporary Periods. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 2007, 144 and 186.
Rubin, Bamett R. Afghanistan in the Post-Cold War Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 19.
Scott, David, (ed.). Handbook of India’s International Relations, London: Routledge, 2011, 201 and 203.
Scott, Margaret and WestenleyAlcenat.“Revisiting the Pivot: The Influence of Heartland Theory in Great Power Politics.”(May 9, 2008, p. 2). Accessed October 18, 2013.http://www.creig hton.edu/fileadmin/user/CCAS/-departments/PoliticalScience/MVJ/docs/The_Pivot_-_Alcenat_and_Scott.pdf
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2014 Firdous Ah. Dar, Tabasum Firdous
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Journal of South Asian Studies
ISSN: 2307-4000 (Online), 2308-7846 (Print)
© EScience Press. All Rights Reserved.