India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of a Rising Power (Library of International Relations)

277 Pages·2010·1.37 MB·English

by  Emilian Kavalski

Emilian Kavalski is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
at the University of Western Sydney and author of Extending the
European Security Community(I.B.Tauris, 2008), editor of The New
Central Asia (2009) and China and the Global Politics of
Regionalization (2009), and co-editor (with M. Zolkos) of Defunct
Federalisms: Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure (2008).
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INDIA AND
CENTRAL ASIA
THE MYTHMAKING AND
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
OF A RISING POWER
EMILIAN KAVALSKI
TAURIS ACADEMIC STUDIES
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The elephants’ bodies bent the earth
and created quakes the world over.
All that monstrous ivory made
the face of the world into a chessboard.
Amir Khusrau (1287)

CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgements xi
1. Introduction: Framing India’s International Interactions 1
2. Trajectories of India’s Post-Cold War Foreign Policy 21
3. The Myth of Assertive Posturing and India’s 47
Post-1998 Foreign Policy Making
4. The ‘Look North’ Policy: Uncovering India’s 79
Discourses on Central Asia
5. The Peacock and the Bear: Shifting New Delhi’s 111
Relations with Moscow in Central Asia
6. An Elephant in a China Shop: India’s Search 133
for Pragmatic Relations with China in Central Asia
7. The Porcupine meets Mars and Venus: India’s 167
Interactions with the West in Central Asia
8. Conclusion: The No Influence of the ‘Look North’ Policy 195
Notes 213
Bibliography 225
Index 249

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party
CAO Central Asian Organization
CFSP EU Common Foreign and Security Policy
CAEC Central Asia Economic Community
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
C/OSCE Conference/Organisation for Security and
Cooperation in Europe
CSTO Collective Security Treaty Organization
C(N)TBT Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty
C(N)TBTO Comprehensive (Nuclear) Test Ban Treaty
Organization
EAEC Eurasian Economic Community
EC European Commission
EU European Union
FRY Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
GoI Government of India
GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development
of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova
ICC International Criminal Court
ICCR Indian Council for Cultural Relations
INC Indian National Congress
ISI Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
JWG Joint Working Group
MTCR Missile Technology Control Regime
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NPT Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
OCAC Organization of Central Asian Cooperation
PfP NATO’s Partnership for Peace program