Alyssa Ayres offre un'acuta analisi sull'ascesa dell'India e sul suo complesso ruolo sulla scena mondiale. Il suo lavoro approfondisce la complessa interazione tra nazionalismo, cultura e politica nell'Asia meridionale, esaminando in particolare le dinamiche tra India, Pakistan, Cina e Stati Uniti. Ayres porta una prospettiva di professionista della politica estera, illuminando il mutante ordine globale. La sua scrittura offre ai lettori una comprensione sfumata della crescente influenza di questa regione fondamentale.
Long plagued by poverty, India's recent economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging powers-but what kind of power it wants to be remains a mystery. Cautious Superpower explains why India behaves the way it does, and the role it is likely to play globally as its prominence grows.
Alyssa Ayres' fascinating study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base great efforts would be required to make it truly national. This paradox underscores the importance of cultural policies for national identity formation. By comparing Pakistan's experience with those of India and Indonesia, the author analyzes how their national language policies led to very different outcomes. The lessons of these large multiethnic states offer insights for the understanding of culture, identity, and nationalism throughout the world. The book is aimed at scholars in the fields of history, political theory and South Asian studies, as well as those interested in the history of culture and nationalism in one of the world's most complex, and challenging, countries.