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South Asia 2060
  • Envisioning Regional Futures
  • Edited by Adil Najam, Moeed Yusuf
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    15 July 2013
  • “South Asia 2060” is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future. The collection explores current regional trends, possible future trajectories, and the key factors that will determine whether these trajectories are positive or negative for the region, as a region. Departing from a purely security-based analysis, the volume considers factors such as development and human well-being to reveal not what will happen but what could happen, as well as the impact present conditions could have on the rest of the world.

  • Introduction: Imagining South Asian Futures

  • Edited by Adil Najam, Moeed Yusuf
  • Book:
    South Asia 2060
    Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    15 July 2013, pp 1-8

  • Summary

    Regions, by definition, are artificial constructs. South Asia is no exception. By all the attributes used to define regional groupings – geography, shared history, cultural, political and linguistic commonalities, cost effectiveness of economic interaction and even historical tensions originating from a shared past – South Asia is not just any region, but an ancient, well-established and important one. Yet, despite libraries devoted to the study of all things South Asian, there is relatively less intellectual effort to define the South Asian regional identity, practice as it pertains to the region and the long-term future of the region and its implications for the world.

    Consisting of eight geographically proximate but extremely diverse states, the region is home to over one-fifth of the world's population – by 2060, it will be the world's most populated region; it sits atop a globally strategic location, watching over key sea lanes and offering the most attractive transit route to some of the richest energy reserves in Central Asia; the region is rife with conflict, and with nuclear weapons and global terrorism in the mix, its future has profound security implications for the rest of the world; and more recently, its economic potential attracted great positive attention, principally in the case of India but also for the region in general.