TY - BOOK AU - Paul,T V TI - South Asia`s weak states : understanding the regional insecurity predicament SN - 9780198072492 AV - DS341 .S687 2010 U1 - 355.033054 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - National security KW - South Asia KW - Internal security KW - Politics and government KW - Foreign relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I; INTRODUCTION --; 1; State Capacity and South Asia's Perennial Insecurity Problems; T. V. Paul --; PART II; STATE CAPACITY --; 2; State Failure and States Poised to Fail: South Asia and Developing Nations; Robert I. Rotberg --; 3; State Formation, Consolidation, and the Security Challenge: Exploring the Causes of State Incapacity in South Asia; Matthew Lange --; 4; State, Nations, and the Regional Security Order of South Asia; Benjamin Miller --; 5; Economic Globalization and State Capacity in South Asia; Baldev Raj Nayar --; 6; Symbiosis and Fracture: Civil Society and Weak States in South Asia; Mustapha Kamal Pasha --; PART III; THE REGIONAL STATES --; 7; Polity, Security, and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India; Rohan Mukherjee --; 8; Weak State, Failed State, Garrison State: The Pakistan Saga; Lawrence Ziring --; 9; Afghanistan: A Weak State in the Path of Power Rivalries; Rasul Bakhsh Rais --; 10; Sri Lanka: Challenges in State Consolidation and Minority Integration; Sankaran Krishna --; 11; Bangladesh: "A Weak State" with Multiple Security Challenges; Ali Riaz --; 12; Rebellion and State Formation in Nepal: Implications for South Asian Security; Maya Chadda --; PART IV; CONCLUSIONS --; 13; Transforming South Asia: Is a Pluralistic Security Community Feasible?; Theodore McLauchlin ER -