Author: Rajen Harshe
K M Seethi/
Editor(s): Rajen Harshe / K M Seethi
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 502
ISBN/UPC (if available): 978-81-250-2825-3
Description
This comprehensive volume brings together essays, by well-known scholars associated with south Asian and International relations Studies, on significant themes of India’s foreign policy. The wide-ranging collection provides analyses of the interactive framework of elements of continuity and change that have cumulatively shaped India’s efforts in negotiating with the external world. The volume also attempts to situate India’s role in the context of the Third World.
The essays included in this volume deal with a vast spectrum of subjects and issues, encompassing the political, ideological, security and economic aspects of India’s foreign policy. They critically analyze issues related to reforms and liberalization, regional co-operation, human, national and energy security, and the overall strategy of India’s foreign policy since independence. In the process, they also unveil the complexities of relations between India and major powers like the United States, Russia and China, and shed fresh insights on India’s ties with important regions including West Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and the Indian Ocean rim.
The trajectories of India’s ties with its South Asian neighbours, particularly Pakistan, are scrutinized with the idea of exploring the possibilities of promoting south Asian regional co-operation. The policy analysis and insights offered in the volume would be useful to students, scholars and policy-makers studying India’s engagement with the world.
REVIEWS
Firmly anchored in a conception of making more audible, voices belonging to less ethnocentric disciplinary locations, genres and contexts, this Reader is a collection of first-rate theoretical engagements relating to International Relations from across India.
-Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu (eds)
International Relations in India: Bringing Theory Back Home
This companion volume is based on the premise that good theory is vindicated in practice. Drawing on eclectic theoretical sensibilities ranging from realism to newer social constructivist variants, this Reader witnesses the application of these theories to real world issues.
-Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth Mallavarapu (eds)
International Relations in India: Theorising the Region and Nation
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
RAJEN HARSE AND K M SEETHI
PART I: THE GLOBAL SETTING
Neoliberal Globalism and India’s Foreign Policy: Towards a Critical rethinking
India and the challenges of Globalisation
Political Economy of India’s Third World Policy
PART II: THE NUCLEAR QUESTION
Nuclear Weapons and India’s Foreign Policy
The Ethics of India Going Nuclear
India’s CTBT Policy: From Text to Testing Times
PART III: THE BIG POWERS
Indo-US Relations in the Post-Cold War Era: Changing Security Perceptions
India and Russia in a Changing World
India-China Relations: Critical Issues
Emerging Trends in Chinese Nationalism: Rethinking Indian Perspectives
PART IV: SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
India, Bhutan and Nepal: Perceptions and Relations
India’s Policy towards its South Asian Neighbours: Constraints, Impediments and Perspectives
Rethinking India-Pakistan Relations: Challenges Ahead
Kashmir: rethinking Security beyond the Line of Control
India-Pakistan Conflict Dynamics: Prospects for Resolution
Free Trade Area Accord Between India and Sri Lanka: Implications for South Indian States
India’s Bhutan Policy
India and Southeast Asia: The Look East Policy in Perspective
PART V: REGIONAL COOPERATION IN SOUTH ASIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
South Asian Regional Cooperation: Problems and Prospects
The Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation: Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean
India and the Indian Ocean Rim Cooperation
PART VI
WEST ASIA AND AFRICA
Kashmir; Pakistan and the Pan-Islamic Challenge to India
India and the Gulf States: Challenges and Opportunities
India’s Israel Policy: Changing Dimensions
Recasting Indo-African Development cooperation
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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