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"Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-469682023-02-01T09:32:33Z India China Banerjee, Payal Ling, L.H.M. Lama, Mahendra P. Bo, Li Kurian, Nimmi Abdenur, Adriana Erthal Ling, L.H.M. Abdenur, Adriana Banerjee, Payal Kurian, Nimmi Lama, Mahendra Political Science International Relations Biography & Autobiography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPS International relations bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories::BG Biography: general "Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India. Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance." 2021-02-26T04:31:41Z 2021-02-26T04:31:41Z 2016 book 9780472902521 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46968 eng application/epub+zip n/a external_content.epub University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.6577564 5206 https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.6577564 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472902521 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) University of Michigan Press Knowledge Unlatched open access
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