Le mardi géopolitique du 10/05/2022 – Monish Tourangbam
Le Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones, la Faculté de sciences politiques et d’études internationales de l’Université de Varsovie, l’Association polonaise d’études internationales et le Groupe d’études géopolitiques vous invitent à la rencontre dans le cadre du séminaire MARDIS GÉOPOLITIQUES.
Geopolitics of South Asia: Past is Prologue
Monish Tourangbam (Amity University, Noida)
le mardi 10/05/2022
15h00-16h30
En ligne : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89467102697
La rencontre se tiendra en anglais.
Veuillez noter que la réunion est enregistrée. L’enregistrement sera utilisé à des fins scientifiques. La participation à la rencontre équivaut à donner son consentement.
Geopolitics of South Asia: Past is Prologue
The current geopolitics of South Asia is rooted in the perceptions and misperceptions of its past. The inter-state dynamics in the region and their modern day sovereign identities are interspersed with the civilizational and colonial history. A cursory examination of the political, physical and cultural fea-tures of South Asia reflects the complexity of the regional geopolitics. While the spectre of India-Pakistan rivalry dominates the South Asian security complex, the dynamics of asymmetry and state identity between India and its smaller neighbours cannot be underplayed. Moreover, the role of extra-regional powers in shaping the geopolitics of the subcontinent cannot be discounted either. In the cur-rent shape of things, China’s strategic inroads into South Asian states adds news layers of alignment and re-alignment in the region. Furthermore, how the saga of Afghanistan has played out in the last two decades leading up to the American withdrawal and the Taliban takeover amplifies the regional security woes. On India’s eastern front, the political dynamics in Myanmar connects South Asia to Southeast Asia in terms of both opportunities and vulnerabilities, besides the overwhelming security implications of the unresolved Sino-Indian border dispute. Last but not the least, South Asian geopoli-tics is a curious case of its continental and maritime features, which has entered a new balance of power with the onset of the Indo-Pacific era. The lecture would be an attempt to unravel the complex and dynamic geopolitics of South Asia and its historical antecedents.
Dr Monish Tourangbam currently teaches at the Amity Institute of International Studies, Amity University (Noida), India. He is also the Honorary Director of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies (KIIPS), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers (CIPR). Formerly, he was a faculty at the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) and an Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He was a Visiting Faculty at the Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was also a South Asian Voices (SAV) Visiting Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Centre, Washington D.C. He was part of an India-China Track II Dialogue and was an Indian delegate at a BRICS Exchange Programme in the People’s Republic of China. He has participated in a number of conferences in India and abroad including Asia Foundation’s Conference on ‘Asia’s Views on America’s Role in Asia’ and a Track II Dialogue on “Planning for the Worst: Nuclear Effect and Disaster Management in South Asia” organized by the Stimson Center and the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo. His writings have appeared as chapters in a number of books and as articles in academic journals and policy-oriented publications. His commentaries have also appeared in a number of newspapers and strategic affairs platforms. He holds a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.