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Journal of South Asian

South Asian Security Dilemmas

Page Numbers: 193

Series: January - March 2004

Acc. No: 363-J

Category: Journals

Subjects: Adult Education

Languages: English

South Asia, a most unpredictable nuclear flash point in the world, is beset with numerous and conflicting security challenges resulting in intractable, and also quite discernible, dilemmas not only at the interstate and intrastate levels, but also between human security and military security. The ongoing conflicts often spill over ethnically and geographically contiguous, mostly porous, frontiers bringing state into conflict, fuelling ethnic and communal dives and an arms race, on the one hand, and bringing greater misery to the people who have been the worst sufferer in conflict situations, on the other. There are two principal dilemmas. One is the dilemma of military security and human security. Greater emphasis on military security has resulted in an increase of 44 percent in military expenditure in South Asia which is relatively the highest in the world. The other crucial dilemma is the over-lapping of intrastate conflict with interstate conflict, or vice versa. This journal contains a series of articles and viewpoints by leading editors with the original contributions from scholars, academics, experts and journalists from South Asia.