Asia Annual 2009- Paradigms of Security in Asia

Security is increasingly becoming a complex concept acquiring new nuances with debates over its scope. There are arguments as to whether the current approache(s) to the study of security is(are) any longer suitable for dealing with the changing nature of contemporary security. At another level, the debate over security is if there can be geographical and cultural connotations to security and security studies in opposition to the state/power centric Western approach. Further there are criticisms related to increasing securitization of issues which, it is argued, may lead to politics of exception.

The volume is an interdisciplinary effort designed to respond to the changing nuances of security. It intends to address the changing notions and critically examine the foregoing uncertainties and the resulting unpredictability in the international politics of Asia. It builds on quest in the region for new analytical and policy frameworks, as well as for a new architecture for regional security.

Arpita Basu Roy is a Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS), Kolkata and a Ph.D. from the Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University. She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge and the recepient of the 10th Wrangler Pavate Fellowship for International Studies (2010). She has been working on Central and South Asia, with Afghanistan being the area of her specific interest since 2000. She is the author of Afghanistan: Towards a Viable State (2002), and Contemporary Afghanistan: Conflict and Peace-building (2010).

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