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Subject: H-ASIA: Call for Chapters for an edited volume: Exploring India
China Relations: Historical Constructions and Future Possibilities
> H-ASIA
> April 5, 2012
>
> Call for Chapters for an edited volume: Exploring India China Relations:
> Historical Constructions and Future Possibilities
> ******************************************************************
> From: "Dr Biswajit Mohapatra" <biswajitm_1@hotmail.com>
>
> Call for Chapters for an edited volume:
> Exploring India China Relations: Historical Constructions and Future
> Possibilities
>
> Papers accepted for publication will be published as book chapters in an
> edited book.
>
> Submission Of Abstract: April,30, 2012 (500 words)
> Submission Of Final Chapter: June 15th,2012
>
> Concept Note
>
> The
> contentious
> dispute
> over
>
> borders
> and
> related
> geopolitical
> competition
> for
> power,
> influence,
> resources,
> and
> above
> all
> markets
> have
> contributed
> towards
> increase
> in
> tension
> between
> China
> and
> India.
>
> In
> the
> years
> after
> their
> independence
>
> except
> for
> a
> very
> limited
> period
> of
> a
> warm
> relationship
> during the early 1950s, the relations between the two Asian giants have
> never been far from any kind of conflict, containment, mutual suspicion,
> distrust, and rivalry.
>
> India's bilateral relations with China as such has remained volatile and
> ridden with friction and tension. Notwithstanding the border dispute
> which led to a full- scale war in 1962 and armed skirmishes in 1967
> and 1987,several rounds of talks that have been held over more than a
> quarter of a century (from 1981 onwards,however have not yielded any
> result for resolving the disputed claims.
>
> Of late China's increasing assertiveness, by way of increased
> incursions in Arunachal Pradesh by the People's Liberation Army (PLA)
> since 2005, has led to a rapid meltdown in the Sino- Indian border talks,
> despite public display of amity. It is felt as if the Chinese believe
> that a border settlement, without major Indian territorial concessions,
> has the risk of augmenting India's relative power position in the
> neighbourhood and in the global diplomacy and thus can impact negatively
> on China's rise and influence.
>
> The prospects of a negotiated settlement in the near future though appear
> to be remote yet remains the only viable alternative though with the
> unsettled border problem China unduly enjoys the strategic leverage to
> keep India guessing about its intentions and nervous about its future
> actions and capabilities while it also exposes India's vulnerabilities and
> weaknesses and thus ensures India's friendly disposure on issues of vital
> concern to China.
>
> It is also widely felt that even after the territorial dispute has been
> resolved, China and India would still be in a competitive relationship
> with each other as caught in the Dragon's triangle. Besides the
> territorial dispute, the nature of China's relationship with India's
> neighbours in South Asia and provision of liberal military assistance to
> them, the remnants of Cold War alignments (Beijing-Islamabad-Washington
> versus the Moscow– New Delhi axis); continuing disturbances over the
> question of Tibet and Kashmir; China's involvement in its immediate
> neighbourhood, what India naturally regards as its zone of influence;
> Beijing's continuous interest for establishing its naval presence in the
> Indian Ocean; competition over scarce resources including sharing of
> waters of Brahmaputra River ; power asymmetry and the never ending quest
> for a supremacy of the leadership over each other in several developing
> world and multilateral forums; and, more recently, suspicion over China's
> secret assistance to Pakistan for nuclear weapons , have exacerbated the
> already fractious and uneasy relationship that existed between the two so
> far.
>
> With Beijing treating South and Southeast Asia as its spheres of influence
> , adopting a balance- of-power approach in interstate relations and India
> as its main obstacle to achieving its strategic objective of regional
> supremacy in Asia threatens the regional peace and security scenario and
> poses great danger to the states in the vicinity.
>
> With India treating the Sino- Pakistani nexus, in particular, as hostile
> and threatening in nature, the "strategic space" in which India
> traditionally was active having become increasingly constricted due to
> Chinese penetration as evident from Beijing's forays into Myanmar (Burma)
> and the Bay of Bengal in the 1990s now presents the spectre of the so
> called global power rivalry which may flare up to large scale military
> tensions in the region and also will endanger the world peace and
> security.
>
> In the light of this when it is being felt that there is a great need to
> expand, deepen and diversify the Strategic and Cooperative Partnership
> between these two powers with the wide acknowledgement that the
> India-China relations has to move beyond the socalled bilateral aspect
> and onto the global dimension,it is important to analyse this emerging
> security scenario and examine the adversarial nature of the Sino- Indian
> relationship and for laying down strategic grounds so as to help these
> two regional powers to conduct smooth negotiations to settle their
> differences and mistrust and to harness their joint energies for a
> sustainable development and peace in the region by acceleration of trade
> and investment and promotion of increased people- to-people contact.
>
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