South Asia's Quest for an Identity and SARC

1 Bruce M. Russet , International Regions and the International System (Chicago 1967), pp. 2–5.

2 See Ernst B. Haans , “The Study of Regional Integration: Reflections on the Joy and Anguish of Pre-theorising,” in International Organisation (Boston), Vol. 24, no. 4, 1970, p. 612.

3 Hellmann , While largely subscribing to a similar view, writes that a sub-system is a pattern of relations among basic units in world politics which exhibits a particular degree of regularity and intensity plus an awareness of this pattern among the participating units, D.C. Hellmann, “The Emergence of an East Asian International Sub-system,” in International Studies Quarterly (Michigan), Vol. 13, no. 4, December 1969, pp. 412–22. For the advantages of a subsystemic study in international politics, see also Peter Berton, “International Sub-system: A Submacro Approach,” International Studies Quarterly, Ibid, p. 330.

4 Louis J. Cantori Steven L. Spiegel , “International Regions: A Comparative Approach to Five Subordinate Systems,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 13 no. 4, December 1969, p. 362.

5 While operationalizing the theory of the subordinate system in case of South and Southeast Asia, Michael Brecher is of the opinion that it is “both a political as well as geographic concept.” Michael Brecher “The Subordinate State System of Southern Asia,” in World Politics, Vol. 15, no. 2, January 1963, pp. 219–20.

6 Leonard Binder , “The Middle East as a Subordinate International System,” World Politics, Vol. 10, no. 2, January 1958, pp. 408–10.

7 Louis J. Cantori Steven L. Spiegel , The International Politics of Regions t A Comparative Approach (Englewood Cliffs, 1970), p. 4.

8 Michael Brecher , The New States of Asia: A Political Analysis (London, 1963), p. 95.

9 For further illustration of such religious and linguistic pluralities in South Asia and their impact on the political process in the region, see Donald E. Smith , (Ed.), South Asian Politics and Religion (New Jersey, 1966), p. 3.

10 Chopra M.K. , “South Asia and its Geostrategic Environment,” USI Journal (New Delhi), Vol. 107, no. 448, July-September 1977, p. 196.

11 For details of comparison among different subordinate systems, Michael Brecher , n. 5, p. 102.

12 Varma S.P. , “South Asia as a Region,” in Varma S.P. Misra K. P. (Ed.), Foreign Policies in South Asia (Jaipur, 1969), p. 346.

13 For a detailed analysis of the lukewarm attitude taken by the representatives of Pakistan and India in several rounds of talks between Colombo to Islamabad, see Pramod K. Mishra , Politics of South Asian Cooperation: A Study in Objective Viability, Problems of Non-Alignment (New Delhi), Vol. 1, no. 4, 1984, pp. 397–436.

14 Emajuddin Ahmed , “Regional Cooperation in South Asia and India's Role” IDSA Journal (New Delhi) Vol. XV, no. 3, January-March 1983. pp. 408–9.

15 Rahman M. Akhlaqur et al., A Customs Union in South Asia: Prospects and Problems (Dacca, 1980), pp. 180–82.

16 Emajuddin Ahmed, n. 11, p. 409.

17 Godfrey Gunatilleke , Cooperation among Small Nations in Asia in the Context of the Changing Asian Political Economy (Colombo, 1979), p. 13.