India China
Subtitle: rethinking borders and security
By: L.H.M. Ling, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Payal Banerjee, Nimmi Kurian, Mahendra P. Lama, and Li Bo
Series: Configurations : critical studies of world politics; Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780472130061; 9780472122202
Subjects: Foreign relations; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Diplomatic relations
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.