TY - BOOK AU - Ebinger, Charles. K TI - Energy and Security in South Asia: Cooperation or Conflict? SN - 9789382993018 U1 - 333.790954 PY - 2013/// CY - Delhi PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Security KW - Energy and Security KW - South Asia KW - Asia N2 - Economic growth and burgeoning populations have put South Asia’s energy security in a perilous state. Already, energy and power shortages are stunting development in some of the region’s least developed locations, spurring political insurgences and social dislocation. Should this trend continue, the subcontinent will face dire economic, social and political crises. In Energy and Security in South Asia, Brookings ESI Director Charles Ebinger, a long-time adviser to South Asian governments, lays out the current regional energy picture arguing that the only way to achieve sustainable energy security is through regional collaboration both within the subcontinent as well as with regional neighbors in the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia ER -