In this timely volume, two leading experts on India's foreign policy bring together essays written over the last 15 years by prominent scholars that challenge some of the commonly held perceptions about India's foreign policy. It explores and challenges several myths about Indian foreign policy-that it lacks strategic culture; there are no clearly discernible sets of principles; and it is largely idealistic in its orientation. The volume gives incisive insights into the key features of India's foreign policy. It also traces the changes that it has undergone over the years, and highlights contemporary policy challenges. In four sections, this volume analyses: India's thinking about its strategic culture and its conception of how to deal with the world; India's power and its foreign policy infrastructure; India's external relationships with major countries; and, finally, India's global diplomacy on issues of climate change and its approach to the WTO.

India's Foreign Policy: A Reader (Critical Issues in Indian Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Bajpai, Kanti P.

Pant, Harsh V.

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

In this timely volume, two leading experts on India's national security bring together some of the best writings on the subject by prominent scholars of international acclaim. It explores the conceptions of national security and security practices prevalent in India; and the ways in which they will be consequential not only for its people, but for South Asia broadly and for the world as a whole. In four sections, this volume analyses: India's internal security, with a special focus on insurgency and terrorism; the nuclear history of the country from 1947 to the nuclear tests of 1998; key bilateral and regional relationships; and a vital but neglected topic-the nature of and need for defence reforms.

India's National Security: A Reader (Critical Issues in Indian Politics)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

India's first Prime, Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundations of an elaborate atomic energy program in 1948, just a year after India's independence. Yet, it took Indian decision-makers more than 50 years to declare the country a nuclear-weapon state in May 1998. Once India crossed thenuclear rubicon, it has managed to transform itself into a major nuclear power. This short introduction provides a clear and succinct account of the evolution of Indian nuclear policy over seven decades since Independence. Situating India's nuclear behaviour in its quest for global status, demandsof national security, vagaries of domestic politics and the idiosyncrasies of the individuals who led its nuclear program, it explains how India's engagement with the atom is unique in international nuclear history and politics.Utilizing the recently declassified archival documents and oral history interviews, the five chapters follow a linear historical narrative explaining how India's nuclear pioneers established the nuclear program after independence; India's development of a nuclear weapons option after the Chinesenuclear test of 1964; its nuclear refrain after the 1974 PNE; its pathways to nuclearisation in the decade of 1980s and 1990s; and finally its rise as a nuclear weapons power after the 1998 nuclear test.

Indian Nuclear Policy: Oxford India Short Introductions (Oxford India Short Introductions Series)

Joshi, Yogesh

Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates Its Rise in the International System

As India's attempts to carve out a foreign policy that is in sync with the irrising international stature,they are having to deal with a range of issues that are controversial but central to the future of an Indian global strategy. This book examines these issues and deduces major trends in Indian foreign policy.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

As India's attempts to carve out a foreign policy that is in sync with the irrising international stature,they are having to deal with a range of issues that are controversial but central to the future of an Indian global strategy. This book examines these issues and deduces major trends in Indian foreign policy.

History

Asia

Handbook of Indian Defence Policy: Themes, Structures and Doctrines

Routledge India

India’s Evolving Nuclear Force And Its Implications For U.S. Strategy In The Asia-Pacific

(SSI), Strategic Studies Institute

O’Donnell, Frank

Reference

lulu.com

India now plays important role on the global stage. Its political clout has increased along with its economic and military growth. Considered a balancing power in Asia-Pacific, it is also seen as a democratic ally in the West even as it challenges it on issues such as non-proliferation or global trade.The book aims to present an overview Indian foreign policy today. It looks at the range of factors that are shaping India's foreign policy, from domestic politics to material capabilities as well as India's relations with the world and neighboring countries. Key global issues, such as the role of India in international and regional organizations, nuclear proliferation, democracy, or climate change are also discussed throughout. In addition, “snapshots” will focus on important issues such as the strategic triangle Russia-China-India.Written by an expert in the field, Indian Foreign Policy will be a key resource for anyone studying Indian politics, comparative international relations, Asian politics, as well as globalization.

Indian Foreign Policy: An Overview

Legal Theory & Systems

Bloomsbury Academic

China is an emerging superpower with growing economic and political interests worldwide that need to be preserved and enhanced. As China becomes economically powerful, it has also become more ambitious and assertive. Its foreign policy strategy is aimed at protecting the country from external threats as it pursues its geopolitical interests, allowing China to continue with economic reforms as well as the acquisition of comprehensive national power. … China initially shied away from playing an active role in international affairs commensurate with its economic weight. This was primarily because the political leadership made a strategic choice to concentrate on economic development at home without attempting a more interventionist global role lest it distract from the number one priority of economic development. But the last few years have seen China shun this reticence like a traditional great power and signal that it is no longer willing to watch international events unfold from the sidelines, thereby promoting its new status as a global player of significance. It is this evolving global profile of China that is the focus of this book as Harsh V. Pant examines the growing role of China in various parts of the world – Asia-Pacific, South Asia, Africa, Middle East, Indian Ocean and Europe – and the tough diplomatic choices that it is having to make as it goes about asserting its interests.

China's Rising Global Profile: The Great Power Tradition (The Liverpool Library of Asian & Asian American Studies)

Liverpool University Press

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