Foreword: Mutual interest-the United Nations and South Asia / Lloyd Axworthy Introduction: South Asia's manifold challenge to the international community / Ramesh Thakur and Oddny Wiggen South Asia in the family of nations / Inder Kumer Gujral South Asia: Melting pot of global faultlines / Sartaj Aziz Nuclear weapons and nuclear war in South Asia: The unknown future / Stephen P. Cohen International security in a nuclear South Asia / Christophe Carle National security: Inter-state conflict in South Asia (a Nepali perspective) / Lok Raj Baral Terrorism and political agitation in post-colonial South Asia: Jammu-Kashmir and Sri Lanka / Kingsley de Silva South Asian contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations: Particular reference to India's participation / Satish Nambiar The United Nations and South Asia: Bangladesh's contribution to UN peacekeeping / Syed Roomy Pro-poor policies in South Asia / Hafiz Pasha Trade and investment in South Asia / Farooq Sobhan and Riffat Zaman Democratic governance in South Asia: Problems and prospects / Gautam Adhikari Pluralism, democracy and governance and South Asia: The case of Sri Lanka / Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Critical links between environment and development in South Asia / Adeel Zafar and Awais Piracha
The environmental challenge to human security in South Asia / Adil Najam
Diffusion of international peace? International rivers and bilateral relations in South Asia / Ashok Swain
A Security Organisation for South Asia: Mechanism for conflict resolution in South Asia / Niaz A. Naik
SAARC as an institutional framework for cooperation in South Asia / Nihal Rodrigo
Human security: The perspective of children and women in South Asia / Manzoor Ahmed
Child malnutrition and gender discrimination in South Asia: Is the worst malnutrition linked to the worst gender discrimination in the world? / Santosh Mehrotra
"Hum honge kamiyab ... (We shall overcome ...)": Non-government organizations, the state and human security in India / Rekha Datta
Post-Taliban Afghanistan and South Asian security / Samina Ahmed
South-west Asia after the Taliban / Mohammed Ayoob
The changing geopolitics of Central, West and South Asia after 11 September / Amin Saikal
Pakistan and India: The way forward / Samina Yasmeen
India-Pakistan relations: Ways forward / Gopalaswami Parthasarathy.
