Dilemmas in World Politics
Exploring the Frontiers
- Suratha K. Malik - Assistant Professor and Teacher-in-Charge in the Department of Political Science, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal
The book reassesses the emerging non-traditional security challenges and speculates on a post-COVID world order. It explores the veiled agenda of globalization and the neoliberal approach, examining the current crisis of governance and its impact on the so-called ‘¬¬Third World’. It critically scrutinizes the widespread discord, under-development, economic exploitation and cultural domination under the ambit of neoliberal globalization.
Intelligently divided into 15 chapters under 5 broad thematic parts, Professor Malik’s anthology provides a comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of politics in the 21st century from a southern, largely Indian perspective. In addition to the traditional themes, the more recent and still evolving issues are also well covered, including neoliberal globalization, feminism, minority rights, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), new media, environment and pandemics, along with state responses involving violence, surveillance, incentives and propaganda. This book is a great resource for students of politics to improve their understanding and, in time, the world.
It is a brilliantly curated selection that provides stimulating material for students and scholars alike. It is comprehensive and insightful.
As a theoretically sound and empirically grounded book, Dilemmas in World Politics covers several important contemporary global issues, which could be useful for a wide variety of audience.
Dilemmas in World Politics: Exploring the Frontiers is a wonderful collection of chapters by eminent scholars, who discuss a whole range of issues that touch upon gender, civil society, secularism, multiculturalism, non-traditional security, environment and sustainable development, among others, in a time when globalization and neoliberalism have thrown up issues that the world needs to come to terms with. It is a very useful book for scholars, researchers and students interested in understanding the issues that are the core of global politics and seeking answers to the challenges faced by the world community.
Theoretically robust and empirically rich, this outstanding compendium provides rare interdisciplinary insights into the challenges and dilemmas in contemporary global politics and geopolitics.
Dilemmas in World Politics makes an interesting compendium, encompassing brilliant essays on different contemporary issues based on latest syllabi on international politics. It constitutes of very readable contributions from a range of academicians and subject experts, promising to be a useful reference book for younger students as also of interest to the wider audience.
Dilemmas in World Politics is a very interesting endeavour. It attempts to create a trans-disciplinary framework on understanding the dynamic interaction of the various forces (geopolitical, geo-economic and developmental, as also partially geophysical) affecting global order and human living. I reckon this as a new way to look at the challenges at the social, cultural, political and economic interfaces of the world order and also the global developmental governance whose pillars are marked by the Sustainable Development Goals.