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The Global Economic Meltdown
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| Jayshree Sengupta |
| 04 December 2012 |
| The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008 is widely recognized across the globe as the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. The prolonged global economic slowdown has stymied the US economy, brought the Eurozone to the precipice, and continues to retard growth momentum throughout the world. |
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Perspectives on Water: Constructing Alternative Perspectives
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| Lydia Powell and Sonali Mittra |
| 12 October 2012 |
| The collection of narratives in this volume call for a global perspective on sustainable use of water with an exclusive emphasis on better management of shared rivers basins and individual watersheds. |
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Democracy and Urban Governance in India
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| Rumi Aijaz |
| 03 March 2012 |
| The book describes innovative urban policy measures and governance practices needed to address contemporary urban challenges in India. It is concluded that the essence of democracy at local government level is yet to be achieved. |
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Changing Tracks in Uttar Pradesh: Strategies Revisited
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| Saurabh Johri |
| 01 December 2011 |
| Switching Tracks for a New Uttar Pradesh is a unique book which analyses the situation in Uttar Pradesh not limiting its scope to just "what needs to be done" but goes on to the next level of "how it needs to be done". The book has prioritized some key areas of reforms and has suggested models to trigger large scale reforms in the state. |
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Caliphate's Soldiers: Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's Long War
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| Wilson John |
| 01 December 2011 |
| This book gives a fascinating insight into one of the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, providing lucid details on its operations, funding and world-wide network. On the third anniversary of the Mumbai attacks, this book serves as a reminder of the clear and present threat which continues to be posed by the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) to India and the world. |
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ORF China Studies Series
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| Editor: M. Rasgotra |
| 12 October 2011 |
| The ORF China Studies Series is an effort to analyse China's economic, political and military trajectory in a sustained and dispassionate manner and create a body of insightful work which will be useful to scholars, policy makers, journalists and all those interested in knowing China better. |
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Health care Delivery in Orissa: An Exploratory Study
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| Sarit Kumar Rout |
| 19 April 2011 |
| The Indian health system is facing multiple challenges in terms of increasing access and providing quality care to large sections of people. In course of time, the complexities have gone up with rising HIV aids, life style diseases like cardio vascular diseases, diabetics, and a number of environmental and pollution related infections affecting millions of people staying in urban locations. |
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Navigating the Near: Non-traditional Security Threats to India, 2022
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| Sunjoy Joshi, Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Wilson John, Lydia Powell and Samir Saran |
| 19 April 2011 |
| National Security is most often thought of in terms of political and military threats to the State-either from other States or geo-strategic alliances. Given such a framework, both the challenges as well as the responses have for long been viewed in terms of military force or coercive ability of the adversary. |
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