Political transition in South Asia: regional cooperation, ethnic conflict, political participation
In: Beiträge zur Südasienforschung 137
From the introduction: This book attempts to throw some additional light on three interdependent phenomena in South Asian political development which lateley have contributed to considerable changes within the subsystem. This applies to intra-state and inter-state configurations. One main feature has been the transcending of the hitherto prevailing national approach to state-to-state relations in South Asia by opening up a new venue of multilaterism or regionalism (SAARC). The two other phenomena are ethnic conflicts and elections/political participation in South Asia, for example in India.