1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464493703321

Autore

Abraham Itty <1960->

Titolo

How India became territorial : foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics / / Itty Abraham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9268-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Studies in Asian Security

Disciplina

327.54

Soggetti

Territory, National - India

East Indian diaspora

Geopolitics - India

Electronic books.

India Boundaries

India Foreign relations

India Politics and government 1947-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Territory and Foreign Policy -- 2 A Brief International History of the Nation-State -- 3 Diaspora as Foreign Policy -- 4 Geopolitics as Foreign Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination of the Indian experience during the 20th century, Itty Abraham addresses these important questions and offers a new conceptualization of foreign policy as a state territorializing practice.Identifying the contested process of decolonization as the root of contemporary Asian inter-state territorial



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143146303321

Titolo

Monatshefte für deutsche Sprache und Pädagogik / / Organ des Nationalen Deutschamerikanischen Lehrerbundes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Milwaukee, Wis.], : [National German-American Teachers' Seminary], 1906-

Disciplina

430/.5

Soggetti

German philology

German philology - Study and teaching - United States

Philologie allemande

Philologie allemande - Étude et enseignement - États-Unis

German philology - Study and teaching

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from caption (JSTOR, viewed July 31, 2009).