Indian foreign policy : an overview

258 Pages·2016·2.8 MB·English

by  Harsh V.

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Indian foreign policy
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Indian foreign policy

An overview
Harsh V. Pant
Manchester University Press
Copyright © Harsh V. Pant 2016
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To the loving memory of Ija
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Contents

Preface page ix
1 Introduction 1
Snapshot 1: Indian foreign and security
policy-making structures 17
Part I India and major powers 21
2 India and the United States: an emerging partnership 23
3 India and China: an uneasy relationship 35
4 India and Russia: convergence across time 50
5 India and the European Union: a relationship in
search of meaning 64
Snapshot 2: The BRICS fallacy 75
Part II India and its neighborhood 79
6 India and Pakistan: a road to nowhere 81
7 India and Bangladesh: a difficult partnership 94
8 Nepal and Sri Lanka: India struggles to retain its relevance 107
9 India and Afghanistan: a test case for a rising power 118
Snapshot 3: India and Bhutan 132
Part III India’s extra-regional outreach 135
10 India in East and Southeast Asia: “acting” East with
an eye on China 137
11 India in Africa and Central Asia: part of the new “Great Game” 149
12 India and the Middle East: a fine balance 161
13 India in the Indian Ocean: colliding ambitions with China 178
Snapshot 4: India and Latin America 192
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Part IV India and the global order 195
14 India as a regional security provider: from activism
to forced diffidence 197
15 India and the global nuclear order: a quiet
assimilation 212
16 India and multilateralism: from the periphery
to the center 224
Snapshot 5: India’s tryst with terrorism 236
Index 238