Indian Foreign Policy

Description

The third edition of Indian Foreign Policy provides a quick, accessible, and succinct account of the direction that India's foreign policy has taken in response to the transformation in global politics. Drawing on extant literature in the field and recently declassified material, this new edition offers a brief yet coherent overview of the origin, evolution, and future direction of India's foreign policy. Offering a new interpretation of key events, this book will be a valuable resource for general readers, students, journalists, and researchers focusing on contemporary Indian foreign policy.

Sumit Ganguly, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Sumit Ganguly is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where he directs the Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations. He is also Distinguished Professor and Tagore Chair Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over two dozen books on the comparative and international politics of South Asia. His most recent books are The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics (co-edited with Eswaran Sridharan; Oxford University Press) and States and Their Nationals Abroad: Support, Co-Opt and Repress (co-edited with Klaus Brummer; Cambridge University Press).

Table of contents

1:Organization and Structure
2:The Palimpsest of the Past
3:The Fate of Non-alignment
4:Coping with the Cold War's End
5:New Delhi and a Shifting Global Order