India China : rethinking borders and security / L.H.M. Ling, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Payal Banerjee, Nimmi Kurian, Mahendra P. Lama, and Li Bo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ling, L. H. M., author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Configurations: critical studies of world politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Foreign relations--China.

India.

China--Foreign relations--India.

China.

India--Boundaries--China.

China--Boundaries--India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword / Patrick Thaddeus Jackson

Acknowledgments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maps

Bibliography

Author Biographies

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-170) and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472902521

0472902520

9780472122202

0472122207

OCLC:

959956381

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.6577564

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access