New Delhi: 20/03/2014: The current socio-political environment across the globe is characterized by significant transformations. Geopolitical change has seen the breaking down of some the world’s walls and the erecting of others, changes to traditional loci of power and to social structures in the context of mobility and migration. Regions have emerged as new geopolitical forces as well as social reference points – both inside nation-states and as clusters of several countries.