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852. U.S.-Japan-India Strategic Dialogue December 4 – December 6, 2009
- Publication Date:
- 12-2009
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Japan Institute Of International Affairs (JIIA)
- Abstract:
- Recognizing the strategic potential for expanding cooperation on regional and global challenges and the shared values among the United States, Japan and India, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), and the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA) initiated the U.S.-Japan-India Strategic Dialogue in June 2006.
- Topic:
- Globalization, Industrial Policy, International Trade and Finance, Regional Cooperation, and Treaties and Agreements
- Political Geography:
- United States, Japan, and India
853. Financial Diplomacy and the Credit Crunch: The Rise of Central Banks
- Author:
- Nicholas Bayne
- Publication Date:
- 06-2009
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Journal of International Affairs
- Institution:
- School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
- Abstract:
- Economic diplomacy can be defined as the method by which states conduct their external economic relations. It embraces how they make decisions domestically, how they negotiate internationally and how the two processes interact. Economic diplomacy has been transformed in the last two decades with the end of the Cold War and the advance of globalization. Its subject matter has become much wider and more varied and it has penetrated more deeply into domestic politics—no longer being limited to measures imposed at the border. Internationally, it engages a far larger range of countries, including new rising powers like China, India and Brazil. Yet the relative power and resources of governments have been shrinking, so that they often seem to be trying to do more with less.
- Topic:
- Cold War and Economics
- Political Geography:
- China, India, and Brazil
854. Empowerment of Dalits and Adivasis Role of Education in the Emerging Economy
- Author:
- Narendra Jadhav
- Publication Date:
- 11-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center for the Advanced Study of India
- Abstract:
- Well, ladies and gentlemen, I feel greatly honored to have been invited to deliver this inaugural keynote lecture in the Nand Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture series for this international conference on India's Dalits. I am indeed grateful to my friend Professor Devesh Kapur, Director of CASI, and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania for providing me this opportunity to participate in this conference on a theme that has been very close to my heart. I understand that the Nand Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture series comprises public lectures on contemporary India that will stimulate a dialogue on campus. Given this focus of the distinguished lecture series and the fact that this also happens to be the inaugural keynote lecture for this International Conference on India's Dalits, I have chosen to share some thoughts with you this evening on the theme of “Empowerment of Dalits and Adivasis: Role of Education in the Emerging Indian Economy.”
- Topic:
- Development, Economics, and Education
- Political Geography:
- India and Asia
855. Arguing Democracy: Intellectuals and Politics in Modern India
- Author:
- Sunil Khilnani
- Publication Date:
- 10-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center for the Advanced Study of India
- Abstract:
- The idea of democracy, brought into being on an Athenian hillside some 2,500 years ago, has travelled far, and today attaches itself to a growing number of political projects. In everyday political talk, as well as in the specialised fields of the political and social sciences, terms like “spreading democracy,” “promoting democracy,” and, of course – “imposing democracy” – have become ubiquitous. Underlying such talk is a belief in democratic universalism; the idea that, as Larry Diamond, erstwhile advisor to Paul Bremer in Iraq, has put it: “Every country in the world can be democratic.” Yet, even as the ambition is asserted to spread democracy across the globe, our conceptions of what democracy is have narrowed: to a “checklist” model, a prescriptive blueprint, based almost entirely on Western experience.
- Topic:
- Democratization and Governance
- Political Geography:
- India and Asia
856. Food as a Metaphor for Cultural Hierarchies
- Author:
- Gopal Guru
- Publication Date:
- 10-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center for the Advanced Study of India
- Abstract:
- The above title, I claim, represents multiple meanings that are attached to Food as substance and the Jaika or “taste” as an idea emanating from the substance. Hence, it is necessary to lay bare different possible meanings that are associated with food. These meanings are both contiguous to and separate from each other. Let us see how they assimilate and dissociate from each other. Food and cooked food are different from each other in a major way. Food has a universal value to the extent that it, as a substance, becomes an essential need for the very survival of all the organic bodies: plants, animals and human beings. Thus, food, at one level, suggests an ontological equality cutting across several organic bodies. Of course, food acquires a specific importance when looked from the point of view of human beings. Unlike plants, human beings require a particular kind of food for their very survival. They require, in most cases, food grains as a primary condition. Thus the denial of food would jeopardize the very survival of human beings. Hence, food falls into the realm of human rights. Furthermore, the denial of food constitutes a violation of human rights. Some of the laudable efforts led by Jean Dreze – who with the help of some NGOs has prepared the bill concerning the right to food – are directed towards making the right to food a safety network against the violation of human rights.
- Topic:
- Human Rights and Culture
- Political Geography:
- India and Asia
857. Venture Capital Investment in the Greentech Industries: A Provocative Essay
- Author:
- Martin Kenney
- Publication Date:
- 07-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
- Abstract:
- In the first decade of the 21st Century there has been increasing awareness of environmental issues and recognition that these are now global in scope. This has occurred for many reasons and is perhaps best epitomized in the global warming discussion. The dramatic rise of China and India, in particular, has reoriented the debate about the sustainability of the current trajectory of fossil fuel usage and environmental degradation. Put quite simply, if the economic growth of China, initially, and then India were to follow the historical trajectory of fossil fuel energy usage and resource consumption that Japan, Taiwan, and Korea followed, the environmental impacts would be nothing short of monumental.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Development, Energy Policy, and Environment
- Political Geography:
- China, India, Taiwan, and Korea
858. Viewing Global Futures Through Rural Transformations: Lessons from India
- Author:
- Pratyusha Basu
- Publication Date:
- 09-2009
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations
- Institution:
- School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
- Abstract:
- The most dramatic economic and political upheavals in today's world are linked to rural areas. The two most prominent examples of this phenomenon are the shocks experienced due to rising food and oil prices and the development of social movements against the privatization of rural resources. In Asia, the future of rural populations is an especially pressing concern because a majority of the people are directly dependent on the agricultural sector for their livelihoods. Within Asia, rural India provides a significant illustration of the promises and pitfalls of contemporary rural change. As an emerging economy that is linked to global networks of information technologies, India is also characterized by a deepening urban-rural divide. The economic disparities inherent in these two broad trends have important implications for both national and global development.
- Political Geography:
- India and Asia
859. Free Riders, Side Payments, and International Environmental Agreements: Is Kyoto Failing Because Montreal Succeeded?
- Author:
- Nadra Hashim
- Publication Date:
- 03-2009
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations
- Institution:
- School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
- Abstract:
- Domestic laws concerning environmental pollution have always been divisive. When they are framed as international law, they become even more contentious. This is especially true in the current era where there has been notable recalcitrance on the part of India, China, and the United States to sign the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty which seeks to regulate world-wide carbon dioxide emissions. Yet, an examination of recent history suggests that there has been some success in at least one area of international law governing the regulation of environmental pollution. The Montreal Protocol, which induced its signatories to end the production and utilization of chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) is a testament to the notion that international law can sustain environmental protection.
- Political Geography:
- United States, China, and India
860. Russia's Great Leap Downward
- Author:
- Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah
- Publication Date:
- 10-2009
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- The Journal of International Security Affairs
- Institution:
- Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
- Abstract:
- No abstract is available.
- Political Geography:
- Russia, China, India, and Brazil