Bhutan and Nepal: the Himalayan Kingdoms in the perils of democracy – a regional issue between India and China
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20 août 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.editionscnrs.12594
- isbn: 9782271077448
- eisbn: 9782271122223
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Thierry Mathou, « Bhutan and Nepal: the Himalayan Kingdoms in the perils of democracy – a regional issue between India and China », CNRS Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.editionscnrs.12594
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July 2007 While China and India are embarking on a “strategic partnership”, the stability of the Himalayan states, faced with an unprecedented social and political transformation, is a cause for concern. Bhutan and Nepal, the last kingdoms of the region, are the sole state survivors of an old regional order that has seen the integration of Tibet into the People’s Republic of China and that of Sikkim into the Indian Union in 20th century. These two comparable, but, nevertheless, different mona...