symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• SOLDIERS, STATESMEN AND STRATEGY
  Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi

• THE INSURGENCY AFFECTED NORTH EAST
  Namrata Goswami, Associate Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, Delhi

• MILITARY MODERNIZATION IN INDIA
  Sunil Dasgupta, Director of Political Science Programme at Shady Grove, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; and Stephen Philip Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington DC

• FROM PARTY-ARMY TO CIVIL-MILITARY IN CHINA
  Samantha Lomeli, independent research scholar, USA

• SECURITY, SOLDIERS AND THE STATE IN PAKISTAN
  Aqil Shah, Post-doctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge

• SECURITY, MINORITIES AND THE LANKAN POLITY
  Ahilan Kadirgamar, Spokesperson, Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF), and member, South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI), Dehiwella, Sri Lanka

• CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN MYANMAR
  Khriezo Yhome, Associate Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Delhi

• STATE, ARMY AND THE AAM ADMI IN NEPAL
  S.D. Muni, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore

• BANGLADESH: IN THE AFTERMATH OF 1/11
  Zafar Sobhan, Editor, Editorial and Op-Ed, 'The Daily Star', Dhaka

• SPOOKS AND STATES
  Rudra Chaudhuri, Lecturer in War Studies, King's College, London; and Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, Delhi

• MILITARY POWER AND THE CONSTITUTION
  Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Professor of Law, National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata; and Madhav Khosla, graduate student, Yale Law School, New Haven

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Kanti Bajpai, Shanmugasundaram Sasikumar, Kartik Bommakanti and Harsh Sethi

• FURTHER READING
  A select and relevant bibliography

• COMMENT
  Why Democrats Should Worry by C.P. Bhambhri, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; and The Tragedy, and the Farce, of Bhopal by Shashank Kela, writer, lives in Chennai

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