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The Book Is A Product Of Teaching Interests And Deals With The Four Significant Case Studies Of Post-Communist And Developing States In Historical, Theoretical And Empirical Dimensions. The Focus Has Been To Look At Their Nature From The Point Of View Of Regime Types And Class Essence, In Other Words On The Margins Of Different Social Science Perspectives. Theories Dealing With State Centric And Society Centric Views Have Been Examined In The Historical Internal And The International Contexts. Speaking Relatively, The State In India Stands Taller Than Russia, Peripheral Central Asia And Authoritarian Pakistan With Regard To Its Ontos And Performance Despite Of Emergency And Current Threats To Its Polity, If The Latter Does Not Mature. Militarism Of Pakistan Has Been Examined With Reference To Its Lineages And International Linkages. Unlike Other Case Studies Pakistan Is Unique In Representing A Case Apart On This Score. Scholars, Students And The Ordinary Reader Will Find This Useful As A Reading And As A Input Into Further Pursuits Of Issues Of The Nature Of Statehood Under The Phase Of Globalisation. In That Context Again We Notice That India Has Been Able To Deal With The Related Issues With More Care To Both Autonomy Within And Sovereignty Abroad. Challenges From The Ordinary People, Regional Groupings And Ethnicity Have Been Highlighted. A Book Like This Is Always Timely And Need Of The Hour. It Does Not Claim To Offer The Road Map Of The Future Except Indicating The Need Of Responding To The Demands Of The Ordinary People., Rakesh Gupta Is A Professor With The Centre For Political Studies, School Of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Since The Last Twenty Three Years. He Ws Head Of The Centre For Political Studies 2000-2002 And Officiated As Dean, School Of Social Sciences Fromj Time To Time During This Period. Prior To This He Has Been Teaching Courses Ion Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Comparative Politics And Indian Politics. He Specialises On Strategic Studies And Foreign Policy. He Has Co-Authored And Edited Numerous Books. Among Them Are Books On Gihar Peasantry, Outer Space, Soviet Union, Civil-Military Relations During Gorbachev Period, Sub Sahara Region, Pakiostan, Indian Security And Usa's Strategic Defence Initiative. He Ihas Published Occasional Papers On Rusian Military Doctrine (Institute Of Defence Studies And Analyses, New Delhi) And On India's Internal Security (International Institute Of Peace Studies, New Delhi). He Has Written Reserch Papers On Socialist Societies, Foreign Policies Of Us, Russia, Pakistan , India, On Arms Control, Disarmament And International Relations And Philosophy Of Jean Franchois Lyotard In National Anhd International Academic Journals. He Has Written About Four Hundred Articles In Dailies, Weeklies, Monthlies, Taboids And Occasional Periodicls On Current Isues Of National And International Politics., Content:- Preface State In India State In Pakistan Russian State State (S) In Central Asia Bibliography Index