Competing Visions of India in World Politics India's Rise Beyond the West

by Sullivan, Kate

• ISBN13: 9781137398659
• ISBN10: 1137398655
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Competing Visions of India in World Politics: India's Rise Beyond the West presents an alternative set of reflections on India's contemporary global role to those narrated by mainstream, US-centric accounts within International Relations. Collectively, the contributors explore a spectrum of non-Western perspectives on India's growing international influence. They deliver insights into a range of shared global issues, processes and institutions, including climate change, development cooperation, UN Security Council reforms, nuclear politics and the terms of world trade. Together, these readings provide a critical evaluation of India's success in reconciling a quest for recognition from established major powers with a desire to maintain relations of solidarity with developing country allies of the Cold War era. This volume is essential reading for anyone studying rising powers, BRICS countries, global power shifts and South-South linkages and will appeal to students and scholars of non-Western International Relations, Global Studies and International Development.

Author Biography

Kate Sullivan is Lecturer in Modern Indian Studies at the University of Oxford's School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, UK. Her published research focuses on rising powers of the Global South, India's nuclear politics, Indian conceptions of greatness, and Indian diplomacy.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Creating Diversity in Contemporary Readings of India's Global Role; Kate Sullivan
1.India's Ambivalent Projection of Self as a Global Power: Between Compliance and Resistance; Kate Sullivan
2. Chinese Views of a Nuclear India: From the 1974 Peaceful Nuclear Explosion to the Nuclear Suppliers Group Waiver in 2008; Nicola Horsburgh
3.India in Climate Change: The View from Tokyo; Yuka Kobayashi
4.Just Another Regional Superpower? A Cautious South Korea Watches India's Rise; Danielle Chubb
5.From Imperial Subjects to Global South Partners: South Africa, India, and the Politics of Multilateralism; Christopher J. Lee
6.What does 'Development Cooperation' Mean? Perceptions from Africa and India; David Harris and Simona Vittorini
7.The 'Eastern Brother': Brazil's View of India as a Diplomatic Partner in World Trade; Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira
8.'The Other Pacifist': Mexican Views on India's Quest for Great Power Status; Gilberto Estrada Harris
9.India in the Iranian imagination: Between Culture and Strategic Interest; Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
10. Views of India from the Conflicting Parties in Syria; Omar Sharaf
11. Russian Views of India in the Context of Afghanistan; Natasha Kuhrt
Conclusion; Kate Sullivan