India China: Rethinking Borders and Security
Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India.

Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance.
 

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India China: Rethinking Borders and Security
Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India.

Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance.
 

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Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India.

Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance.
 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780472130061
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 09/19/2016
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

L. H. M. Ling is Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York, USA.


Adriana Erthal Abdenur is a Fellow with the Igarapé Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, and a Productivity Scholar with the Brazilian National Council for Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq).
 Payal Banerjee is an Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology at Smith College in Northampton, MA.
Nimmi Kurian is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi, India, and India Representative, India China Institute, The New School, New York. 

Mahendra P. Lama is a Professor in the School of International Studies at Jawarhalal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, India.

Li Bo is a part-time consultant for environmental grant-making in China and chief editor of the Green Cover Book: Annual Review of China’s Environment, a Chinese publication. At the same time, he runs a small organic farm by Lake Huron in Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword Patrick Thaddeus Jackson vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: What's Not There; India-China L. H. M. Ling 1

Chapter 1 Trans-Himalayas: From the Silk Road to World War II Adriana Erthal Abdenur 20

Chapter 2 Borders as Opportunities: Changing Matrices in Northeast India and Southwest China Maheudra P. Lama 39

Chapter 3 Subregionalizing IR: Bringing the Borderlands Back In Nimmi Kurian 60

Chapter 4 Dialogue across Borders: Dam Projects in Yunnan and Sikkim Payal Banerjee Li Bo 80

Chapter 5 Border Pathology: Ayurveda and Zhongyi as Therapeutic Strategies L. H. M. Ling 102

Conclusion: What's Ahead: India-China in the World Borderlands Studies Group 127

Maps 139

Bibliography 145

Author Biographies 171

Index 175

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