India’s Foreign Policy

Surviving in a Turbulent World
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-93-5388-295-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 860 g

Written by foreign policy experts, academics and practioners, this book develops the frameworks and strategies for India’s foreign policy that can be adopted to meet the emerging challenges and non-traditional threats in the new world order. It studies the important aspects of India’s foreign policy in the present unsettled world order and comes up with strategies and policy suggestions. It raises several questions to highlight the future direction of foreign policy and the challenges that India may have to deal with in the coming years. The book covers the domestic dimension of the country’s foreign policy, which is often missed out in policy discussion. It examines the close link between national security and foreign policy, and shows how foreign policy can be leveraged to strengthen the economy and make India a hub of innovation. This book emphasizes soft power strategies to ensure that a strategic approach to soft power projection is adopted.

India’s Foreign Policy: Surviving in a Turbulent World is a ready reference on India’s foreign policy that can be used to understand the complexities of the topics covered.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Arvind

Wadhwa, Anil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: India's Foreign Policy—Surviving in a Turbulent World - Arvind Gupta
Part A: Drivers and Trends
Indian Narrative in Emerging Multipolar World: Some Reflections - S.D. Muni

National Security Determinants of Foreign Policy - P.S. Raghavan
Strategizing Soft Power Projection - Veena Sikri
India and Multilateralism - Asoke Kumar Mukerji
Leveraging International Cooperation in Science and Technology - Arvind Gupta
Indian Narrative through the Cold War Era: From Panchsheel to Détente - Vivek Prahladan
Rebalancing Foreign Policy and Non-traditional Security Issues - Uttam Kumar Sinha
The Economic Dimension of India’s Foreign Policy - Prasenjit K. Basu
Domestic Drivers of India’s Neighbourhood Policy - Ashok Behuria
Intelligence and Foreign Policy: India and the world in 2050 - Vikram Sood
Part B: Relationships
India’s Relations with the Great Powers - Rajiv Sikri
Chapter on India's Relations with Its SAARC Neighbours - Satish Chandra
Political Economy of India’s International Relations: A New Path for Sustained Strategic Interlinkages - Arun K. Singh
Dealing with a rising China - Sujit Dutta
Japan and India: Partners in Progress - Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa
India–Russia Ties: Exploring Convergences and Divergences - Ajai Malhotra
Changing Landscape of Central Asia - D.P. Srivastava
India and West Asia: Promoting Security in a Turbulent Region - Talmiz Ahmad
India and South East Asia - Anil Wadhwa
India and the European Union - Gulshan Sachdeva
India and the Indian Ocean - Yogendra Kumar
India’s Tryst with Africa: India–Africa Contextualized - Anil Trigunayat
Latin America: A Long-term Partner for India - R. Viswanathan
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Über Autor(innen)

Gupta, Arvind
Arvind Gupta is the Director of Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a Delhi-based independent, non-partisan think tank focusing on research on foreign policy, defence and security-related issues from the Indian perspective.

During 2014–2017, he was the Deputy National Security Advisor and Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat in the Government of India. He was associated with the National Security Council Secretariat as Joint Secretary from 1999 to 2007.

During 2012–2014, he was Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), an autonomous institute set up by the Indian Ministry of Defence. He was Lal Bahadur Shastri Chair on National Security at the IDSA during 2008–2014. He was the managing editor of Strategic Analysis, IDSA’s flagship academic journal.

A former diplomat, Dr Gupta joined the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1979. He has served in Indian Mission in Moscow, London and Ankara, and worked on several desks in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

He is also an Honorary Professor in the Department of Defence and National Security Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. His interests are in India’s foreign policy, national security, history, governance, culture and civilization. He also writes articles on popular science.

Having 20 years of policy-level experience in national security issues, he has been a part of several official and Track-II discussions on security. He has written and edited several books and articles on global, regional and national security issues as well as foreign policy.

His latest book How India Manages Its National Security was published in 2018.

Wadhwa, Anil
Anil Wadhwa was a member of the IFS from July 1979 till May 2017. In his 37-year career, he has been ambassador of India to Italy, San Marino, Thailand, Oman, Poland and Lithuania, and has served in Hong Kong, Beijing (twice), permanent mission of India in Geneva and worked on deputation with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague where he headed their media and public affairs and government relations branches. Ambassador Wadhwa was head of the East Europe division in the MEA in New Delhi and looked after relations with Russia and Eastern European countries. As Secretary (East) in the MEA, he oversaw relations with ASEAN, South East Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the Middle East and West Asia. He has attended a host of international conferences and was Indian delegate to the conference on disarmament in Geneva, first committee in New York, as well as to the ASEAN, ASEM, ADMM and Small Island States meetings such as Forum for India–Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC). Ambassador Wadhwa has contributed a number of articles on foreign policy, disarmament and international security. He is fluent in Chinese and knows French. He has been a senior fellow (January–October 2018), and since then, a distinguished fellow with the VIF, New Delhi. He also serves as an independent Director/Advisor on some corporate boards.