{"title":"Strategic Hyphenation between India and Israel: The Major Areas of Cooperation and Constraints in the Post-Cold War Era","authors":"D. Ghosal","doi":"10.1177/0973598416657971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598416657971","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the steady strengthening of India’s relationship with Israel, ever since India established full diplomatic relations with Israel in the year 1992. However, notwithstanding the convergence of interests on a range of issues between India and Israel, this bilateral relationship will have to be carefully managed because of a host of constraints which circumscribe the same. This study examines those factors which are bringing the two nations increasingly closer and the constraints that might stand in the way of healthy bilateral relations between them. The first section of this article deals with those areas where both the nations cooperate. The second section highlights the various constraints that make it difficult for this relationship to achieve its full potential. This article explores how India has intricately tried to maintain a delicate balance over the years by addressing the areas of constraints in a very articulate way, so that the Indo-Israeli relations in the post-Cold War era continue to flourish.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129579439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India’s Interests in Emerging Subregional Cooperation: Opportunities and Challenges","authors":"Herkan Nedan Toppo","doi":"10.1177/0973598416657962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598416657962","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the study is to identify the problems and prospects surrounding India’s regional trade and investment patterns with regard to subregional cooperation. There are several factors which appeals to India’s interests in subregional cooperation, with particular emphasis on the idea of development, which puts a high premium on economic growth. This, however, blinds the urgent need for sustainable and equitable benefits and sharing compounding interests. The debate and discourse on the Look East Policy in India’s foreign policy is viewed as an attempt to assert its potential regional stature and consequently try to overcome and move beyond certain imposed limitations in regional priorities. India, South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) countries are viewed as natural trading partners. Besides this, there have also been substantial contributions with regard to progress in India’s trade with other developing countries in Asia and the Pacific region, within the initiations of the formation of Look East Policy among subregional entities.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125502847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nontraditional Security: Redefining State-centric Outlook","authors":"Ningthoujam Koiremba Singh, W. Nunes","doi":"10.1177/0973598416658805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598416658805","url":null,"abstract":"The end of the Cold War witnessed a paradigm shift not only in the international setting but also in the field of studies relating to security issues. During the Cold War international relations, both in terms of theory and practice, were dominated by the realist paradigm that emphasized on the notion of preservation of the state from threats emanating from external sources. Such a conception was myopic and it narrowed the analysis of international and security issues. During the past decade, particularly during the post-Cold War era, attempts were being made to broaden the security agenda in order to include issues of other sectors, namely, political, economic, societal, and ecological, besides the military ones. This article is an attempt to deal with a broader understanding of the term security as drawn from various theoretical schools not only to lend clarity to the term but also to enable a researcher to place the concept in a proper frame of reference, that is, to examine the concept of security with focus on the changing international security agenda that not only calls for a rethinking but also a reexamination of the perennial security issues.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"12 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133140486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Michael Axworthy, Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic","authors":"Md. Abdul Gaffar","doi":"10.1177/0973598415627908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598415627908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"13 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121000996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regime Stability in Anocracies: The Role of Special Economic Zones","authors":"C. Fuller","doi":"10.1177/0973598415627889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598415627889","url":null,"abstract":"In the two decades since Fukuyama’s famous claim of an ‘end of history,’ the number of democratic regimes increased and the number of autocratic regimes decreased, but the number of anocracies – mixed or institutionally inconsistent regimes – remains the same or slightly higher. This article presents a theory of institutionally inconsistent regime stability. Stability in all regimes is due to reinforcing and consistent institutional structures that create self-enforcing equilibria, which in turn induces elites to work together towards regime stability. The use of special economic zones (SEZs) in institutionally inconsistent anocracies allow the existing elite to prescreen and preselect new members in the winning coalition, thus creating a more consistent institutional environment in which elites are more likely to work together. Elites are chosen based upon 1) potential economic contribution and 2) potential to challenge the existing political order. This study empirically examines the role of special economic zones (SEZs) – geographically restricted investment areas with special benefits. SEZs allow for preselection and screening through the offer of special benefits and the negotiation of contracts. I use an original set of SEZ panel data covering 160 countries from 1995–2010 to examine regime stability. I first use a fixed effects model to confirm that autocracies and democracies are more stable than anocracies. I then use a Heckman selection model to examine the interaction between SEZs and regime types. I find evidence that the use of SEZs in anocracies significantly increases regime stability and marginally decreases it in autocracies.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125387242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The International Relations of Outer Space: Changes, Continuities, and Contextualities","authors":"Shounak Set","doi":"10.1177/0973598415627903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598415627903","url":null,"abstract":"The outer space mostly evokes notions and imageries which are largely limited to either the realms of science and technology or popular fiction. The paper contends that human activities pertaining to outer space are driven solely by scientific impulses and hypothesizes that political considerations have shaped and in turn been shaped by the nature of practices in and arrangements of outer space. It posits that the human activities in final frontier is subject to the politics of terra firma and is connected to the relations between and among states. The article explores these interlinkages with historical illustrations and compares and contrasts them with emerging trends to establish the interconnection between international relations and outer space.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126142303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politicization of Kurdish Security in Iraq Since 2003","authors":"Hawre Hasan Hama","doi":"10.1177/0973598416639414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598416639414","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on Kurdish security question in Iraq from 2003 to the present. Its central argument is that the security of the Kurdish region of Iraq has only constitutionally de-securitised since 2003. However, the Kurdish security demands in Iraq have been politicized by the different Iraqi governments since 2005, and therefore, security relations between the Iraqi state and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have been fraught with distrust, tensions, and chaos since that time. The concepts derived from the Copenhagen School (CS) provide the framework for discussing security relations and the inherent security struggles between the Iraqi state and the KRG.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127562845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Media Images of Pakistan’s Hostility toward India: A Study of Four Newspapers during 2001–2002","authors":"Gurinder Singh","doi":"10.1177/0973598415627892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598415627892","url":null,"abstract":"Hostility toward India remained perhaps the defining feature of Pakistan’s foreign policy. The underlying factors have been widely researched and debated. The present article seeks to explore the issue through the lens of a cross section of the Indian media—the newspaper press to be precise. The significance of the study derives from the assumption that media projection of policy-relevant issues largely shapes popular perceptions in a democracy and thereby exerts indirect influence on the policy-making exercise as well. The general objective has been broken down into two operative objectives: to identify the various explanations offered by the press for the anti-Indian component of Pakistan’s foreign policy and also to note if these perceptions/explanations remained stable over a period of time. To attain these goals, four English language dailies, namely, The Tribune, The Hindu, The Telegraph, and The Times of India, have been examined in terms of their editorials and opinion articles in relation to the Indo–Pak bilateral engagements during 2001–2002. It was revealed that the newspapers concentrated on a limited number of explanations for the antagonism between India and Pakistan—pinning the responsibility generally on Pakistan. Moreover, the emphasis they laid on respective explanations varied considerably during the time frame indicated above.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"2040 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129787485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sacred and the Secular: Influence of Religion on George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy","authors":"M. Choudhury","doi":"10.1177/0973598416639413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0973598416639413","url":null,"abstract":"This article makes an attempt at unraveling the influence of religion on former President George W. Bush’s foreign policy in the aftermath of the spectacular event of September 11. Along with various trends of globalization, the contemporary world also witnessed the resurgence of religious forces, making its presence felt across not only the social spectrum but also the political spectrum. This trend has been more visible in US foreign policy, particularly under the presidency of Bush Junior. After the attack, Bush’s frequent references to God resonated well with awestruck Americans, who looked upon their leader for solace and security. And the President’s personal faith went a long way in constructing the mechanism through which he intended to fight the scourge of terrorism—his policy of “War on Terrorism.” Bush also used religion as a polish to gloss over his muscular expansion of hegemonic power. Since religion played an important role in the identification and construction of the enemy as “evil,” both for Osama bin Laden and later for President Bush, Samuel P. Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” thesis found frequent references in the course of the analysis.","PeriodicalId":173238,"journal":{"name":"Jadavpur Journal of International Relations","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123365482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}