The term "Asian century" was first coined by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1985 when discussing the Asian economic leap forward. From 1988, diplomats and the media also started using the term, further to the successful Deng Xiaoping-Rajiv Gandhi summit held that December in Beijing, for which Vappala Balachandran, under Prime Minister Gandhi's express directions, led a small team of officials for more than a year of discreet 'off-line' talks with key Chinese counterparts--separate from the official diplomatic engagement.
The Chinese-Indian thaw, which lasted until 1998, prompted highly optimistic visions of a "China-India Century of Cooperation" enabling both powers to compete with the US and EU in terms of trade and military capacity. None of this happened, and instead the China-India relationship is highly rancorous, punctuated by trade spats and border skirmishing between the People's Liberation Army and the Indian Army. New Delhi has gravitated towards the US in the hope of checkmating an assertive Beijing's pursuit of global military and trade dominance. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of India and China's comparative strategic capabilities, sharing many insights drawn from the author's first-hand engagement with and research into the questions discussed.
The opinions expressed in this book are personal and do not represent those of the Government of India.
A high-level insider's account of how China and India are locked in an ongoing struggle for supremacy in Asia.
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'Balachandran moves beyond surface level commentary and attempts to investigate ... "cultural roots".' * Asian Affairs * 'An insider's account of the growing strategic competition between Beijing and New Delhi.' * Himal Southasian * 'Drawing on his personal experience at a founding moment in the diplomatic opening between India and China, the author offers us a finely grained and deeply thoughtful history of their relations since then. It tells the story of a relationship that will shape our global future.' -- Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford 'This unconventional book, by a thoughtful former Indian intelligence officer, is far more than a book about India-China relations. Between the bookends of his analysis of the relationship, Vappala Balachandran traces the changing 'idea of India' which bears on its security.' -- -- Kanti Bajpai, Wilmar Professor of Asian Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore 'This is a timely, important, and ambitious book. It is not only deeply informed but also perceptive and provocative. Packed full of illuminating insights and magnificently researched detail, it carefully charts the troubled path of China-India relations during the "Asian century'" and offers astute assessments of the Indo-Pacific's future in an era of growing strategic competition between Beijing and New Delhi. This book is indispensable for scholars and general readers concerned with contemporary power politics. It is simply superb.' -- Paul McGarr, Kings College London, author of Spying in South Asia
Introduction, Akil N Awan and James R. Lewis.
SECTION I: APPROACHES TO RADICALIZATION
1. Problematizing Radicalization, Richard Jackson and Kieran Ford.
2. The Social Ecology Model of "Homegrown" Jihadist Radicalization, Lorne L. Dawson.
3. Routes to Terrorism: A Rational Choice Perspective to Radicalization, Stephen C. Nemeth.
4. Radicalization as Identity Reconfiguration and Narrative Resonance: the Case of IS in Europe, Akil N Awan.
5. Processes of Radicalization On Screen: How we Canonize The White Saints of Freedom, Christopher Hartney.
6. Interpreting the Radicalization of Youth: What can research on NRM converts tell us about Westerners who join radical Islamic groups? Margrethe L??v.
7. Myths of Heroes and Radicalization, Heather S. Gregg.
8. Beyond Women: Rethinking Gender and Radicalization, Elizabeth Pearson.
SECTION II: PRISMS OF RADICALIZATION
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10. Aum Shinrikyo and the "Aum Incident": The Radicalization of a Young Japanese Religious Group, Martin Repp.
11. Creating the discourse of religious radicalization in Kyrgyzstan, Meerim Aitkulova.
12. Transnational Far Right Digital Publics and Radicalization, Caterina Froio & Bharath Ganesh.
13. Between offline and online violent radicalization: Repertoires of Action of the Extreme Right in Eastern and Central Europe, Manuela Caiani.
14. 'The Radicalization of Western Man': The Great Replacement, White Radical Nationalism, and Lone Wolf Violence, Mattias Gardell.
15. The Collapse of Cultures: Jihadis, the Alt-Right and the Dark Side of Globalization, Scott Atran.
16. Making De-Radicalization: The Framing of De-radicalization in the UK and Nigeria, Gordon Clubb.
17. Counter-Radicalization Surveillance as a Public Health Measure: Counterterrorism in the Public Sector, Charlotte Heath Kelly.
Vappala Balachandran is a columnist, former special secretary for the Indian Cabinet Secretariat, and author of four books on Indian security, strategy and intelligence. In 1987 he led a two-member Indian team to revamp the security set-up of an Indian Ocean country, at its president's request. In 1993 and 1994 he headed the Indian interagency intelligence groups for annual dialogue with US agencies on terrorism. In 1995 he organised the first discreet talks between Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and the chief rebel Naga group, paving the way for a ceasefire.
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