Small Arms & the Security Debate in South Asia - Couverture souple

Malik, Salma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8173046255 ISBN 13 : 9788173046254

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2005

Synopsis

Published in association with Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo. Easy availability of small arms and their unscrupulous use can easily be identified as the single most contributing factor that triggers and sustains human insecurity. The end of the Cold War brought forth a dialectic change in the traditional debate on security and ushered in discourses on a whole range of non-military challenges to security, including small arms. Unfortunately, this change is not yet reflected in South Asia, where emphasis is primarily on enhancing military postures and capabilities, and persistent tensions between India and Pakistan backed by their nuclear prowess have stifled non-military security concerns not only in these countries, but in the region as a whole. This slim volume attempts to introduce the subject of small arms proliferation in the overlapping areas of the two thresholds of the security discourse -- state security, and human security. Issues pertaining to the increased use of explosives and illegal domestic production, which have not received the attention they merit have been discussed at some length. The authors make out a case for regional cooperation to arrest further inflow of arms in the region from neighbouring conflict zones.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Salma Malik is Lecturer, Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. She has also been a visiting faculty at the Intelligence Bureau Academy, Islamabad, and PAF Air War College, Karachi. Earlier, she was a researcher at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8173046255
• ISBN 13: 9788173046254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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