The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

by Malone, David M.; Mohan, C. Raja; Raghavan, Srinath

• ISBN13: 9780198743538
• ISBN10: 019874353X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-09-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

David M. Malone joined the United Nations University on 1 March 2013 as its sixth Rector. In that role, he holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to joining the United Nations University Dr. David Malone served (2008-2013) as President of Canada's International Development Research Centre, a funding agency that supports policy-relevant research in the developing world.

C. Raja Mohan is Head of Strategic Studies and Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Earlier he was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Mohan served as the Diplomatic Editor and the Washington Correspondent of The Hindu and the Strategic Affairs Editor of The Indian Express. He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board.

Srinath Raghavan is Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Senior Research Fellow at the Kings India Institute. Dr. Raghavan's research interests are in contemporary history of India, international politics of South Asia, Indian military history, and India's foreign and defence policies since 1947.

Table of Contents

Section I: Introduction
1. India and the World, David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan
2. Five Approaches to the Study of Indian Foreign Policy, Kanti Bajpai
3. Theorising India's Foreign Relations, Siddhartha Mallavarapu
Section II: Evolution of Indian Foreign Policy
4. Foreign Policy of the Raj and its Legacy, Sneh Mahajan
5. Ideas about Foreign Policy Before Independence, Rahul Sagar
6. Establishing the Ministry of External Affairs, Pallavi Raghavan
7. Nehru's Foreign Policy: Idealism and Realism Conjoined?, Andrew Kennedy
8. Indira Gandhi's Foreign Policy: Hard Realism?, Surjit Mansingh
9. At the Cusp of Transformation: The Rajiv Gandhi Years, 1984-89, Srinath Raghavan
10. Foreign Policy After 1990: Transformation Through Incremental Adaptation, C. Raja Mohan
11. India's National Security, Sumit Ganguly
12. Resources, Ligia Norohna
13. India's International Development Program, Rohan Mukherjee
14. India's Soft Power, Rani Mullen
Section III: Institutions and Actors
15. State and Politics, Paul Staniland and Vipin Narang
16. The Parliament, Rudra Chaudhuri
17. Officialdom, Tanvi Madan
18. The Private Sector, Rajiv Kumar
19. The Media in the Making of Foreign Policy, Manoj Joshi
20. Think-Tanks, Universities, Amitabh Mattoo and Rory Medcalf
21. Mother India and Her Children Abroad: The Role of the Diaspora in India's Foreign Policy, Latha Varadarajan
22. Public Opinion, Devesh Kapur
23. Indian Scientists in Defence and Foreign Policy, Jaideep A. Prabhu
24. The Economic Imperatives Shaping India's Foreign Policy
Section IV: Geography
25. India and the Region, Stephen Cohen
26. China, Alka Acharya
27. India's Policy Towards Pakistan, Rajesh Basrur
28. Bangladesh, Krishnan Srinivasan and Sreeradha Dutta
29. India's Nepal Policy, S.D. Muni
30. India-Sri Lanka Equation: Geography as Opportunity, V. Suryanarayan
31. India's Bifurcated Look in Central Eurasia: The Central Asian Republics, Emilian Kavalski
32. The Persian Gulf, Talmiz Ahmad
33. India's 'Look East' Policy, Amitava Acharya
34. The Indian Ocean as India's Ocean: Geopolitics and Geoeconomic Drivers for the 21st Century, David Scott
Section V: Key Partnerships
35. US-India Relations: The Struggle for an Enduring Partnership, Ashley Tellis
36. Western Europe, Christian Wagner
37. The Russian Federation: The Anatomy and Evolution of a Relationship, Rajan Menon
38. Brazil: Fellow Traveller on the Long and Winding Road to Grandeza, Varun Sahni
39. Israel: A Maturing Relationship, P.R. Kumaraswamy
40. India and South Africa, Kudrat Virk
41. Unbreakable Bond: Africa in India's Foreign Policy, Constantino Xavier
Section VI: Multilateral Diplomacy
42. India and Global Governance, Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone
43. India and the United Nations- or Things Fall Apart, Manu Bhagavan
44. India and the International Financial Institutions, Jason Kirk
45. India's Contemporary Pluritalerism, Samir Saran
46. India in the International Trading System, Pradeep S. Mehta and Bipul Chatterjee
47. Multilateralism in India's Nuclear Policy: A Questionable Default Option, Rajesh Rajagopalan
48. Multilateral Diplomacy on Climate Change, Navroz Dubash and Lavanya Rajamani
Section VII: Looking Ahead
49. India's Rise: The Search for Wealth and Power in the 21st Century, Sunil Khilnani
50. Rising or Constrained Power? Why India Will Find It Difficult To Convert Economic Growth and Nuclear Capability into Power, Eswaran Sridharan