Engaging with the World

Engaging with the World

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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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