Power Politics in South Asia: The Role of Economic Dependency, Military Capability, and External Influence

Abstract

This paper specializes in the politics of electricity in South Asia via way of reading the case have a look at evaluation of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh qualitatively and comparatively. Based on semi-dependent interviews with ten or twelve worldwide family members specialists, coverage analysts, and students recruited with the aid of purposive sampling, in addition to systematic exploitation of number one and secondary reassets inclusive of coverage documents, strategic reports, and educational publications, the take a look at questions the aggregate of financial dependency, army capability, and outside have an impact on withinside the formation of local energy family members. Thematic and comparative evaluation as interpreted thru theoretical views of structural realism and dependency idea suggests that South Asia accommodates of a particularly stratified nearby order in which the hegemonic energy of India and the Chinese strategic penetration, American recalibration, and smaller country vulnerability asymmetry coexist. The effects display that monetary dependency isn't always handiest a structural barrier to nation autonomy, however additionally a strategic device utilized by the dominant powers; that navy abilities disparities are the premise of the safety dilemmas and fingers race procedures that destabilize the region; and that the outside have an impact on, basically via way of China and the United States, substantially adjustments the stability of strength in a way that complicates nearby-degree analyses. The studies provides novel comparative and empirically-supported know-how to the literature on South Asian global family members and progresses the particular coverage hints on the steadiness of the region.