Indian foreign policy: An overview

✍ Scribed by Harsh Pant

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book presents an overview of Indian foreign policy today. It looks at factors that are shaping India’s foreign policy, from domestic politics to material capabilities as well as India’s relations with the world and neighbouring countries. Key global issues such as the role of India in international and regional organizations, nuclear proliferation, democracy and climate change are discussed and there is a focus on important current issues such as the strategic triangle of Russia, China and India.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Snapshot 1: Indian foreign and security policy-making structures
Part I India and major powers
India and the United States:
India and China: an uneasy relationship
India and Russia: convergence across time
India and the European Union: a relationship in search of meaning
Snapshot 2: The BRICS fallacy
Part II India and its neighborhood
India and Pakistan: a road to nowhere
India and Bangladesh: a difficult partnership
Nepal and Sri Lanka: India struggles to retain its relevance
India and Afghanistan: a test case for a rising power
Snapshot 3: India and Bhutan
Part III India’s extra-regional outreach
India in East and Southeast Asia: “acting” East with an eye on China
India in Africa and Central Asia: part of the new “Great Game”
India and the Middle East: a fine balance
India in the Indian Ocean: colliding ambitions with China
Snapshot 4: India and Latin America
Part IV India and the global order
India as a regional security provider: from activism to forced diffidence
India and the global nuclear order: a quiet assimilation
India and multilateralism: from the periphery to the center
Snapshot 5: India’s tryst with terrorism
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