New Directions in India's Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis

Cambridge University Press, 2/28/2019
EAN 9781108473668, ISBN10: 1108473660

Hardcover, 304 pages, 23.5 x 16 x 2.7 cm
Language: English

India's foreign policy has witnessed a dramatic transformation since the end of the Cold War. Though academic study of Indian foreign policy has also shown a degree of maturity, theoretical developments have been underwhelming. Scholars have introduced new concepts and examined Indian foreign policy through new prisms, but a cohesive research agenda has not yet been charted. This volume intends to fill that void. It brings together new cutting-edge research in the field of Indian foreign policy - both at the theoretical and empirical level - so as to shape the discourse on foreign policy of one of the most important players in global politics. This volume explores key concepts like 'constructivism' and 'territoriality' and analyses their contribution to the academic discourse on Indian foreign policy. Issues such as the 'Indo-Pacific' and the 'responsibility to protect' have also been examined to address the expanding horizons of Indian foreign policy.

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction Harsh V. Pant
Part I. Theoretical Evolution
2. Power and Indian foreign policy Rohan Mukherjee
3. Constructivism and Indian foreign policy Priya Chacko
4. Exploring historical memory and Indian foreign policy Manjari Chatterjee Miller
5. A doubled geography
geobody, land, and sea in Indian security thought Itty Abraham
6. Foreign policy analysis and Indian foreign policy Harsh V. Pant and Avinash Paliwal
Part II. Emerging Themes
7. Non-alignment and beyond Harsh V. Pant and Julie M. Super
8. India and multilateralism
concepts, new trajectories and theorizing Arndt Michael
9. India and the responsibility to protect Ian Hall
10. India and the Indo-Pacific discourse David Scott
11. India and nuclear deterrence Rajesh Basrur
12. India and its diaspora Latha Varadarajan
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index.