ABSTRACT
This book investigates the interplay of internal and external constraints, challenges and possibilities regarding foreign policy in India.
It is the first attempt to systematically analyse and focus on the different actors and institutions in the domestic and international contexts who impose and push for various directions in India’s foreign policy. Rather than focusing on any one particular theme, the book explores the myriad aspects of foreign policymaking and the close interface between the domestic and external aspects in Indian policymaking. In turn, this relates to the structural issues shaping and reshaping the Asian regional dynamics and India’s connectivity within a globalized world.
This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students; scholars of Asian Studies, development, and political science and international relations; and all those involved in policy – especially foreign policy – within India and South Asia. It will also be useful for people working in professional branches of consultancy and the private sector dealing with India and with South Asia in general.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|19 pages
The interface of domestic and international factors in India’s foreign policy
part I|73 pages
The evolution of reactive and proactive foreign policy
chapter 2|32 pages
The struggle between political idealism and policy realism
chapter 3|19 pages
India’s foreign policy and domestic compulsions
part II|72 pages
Global ambitions, internal and regional constraints
chapter 5|30 pages
Status of Malaysian-Indians in Malaysian social matrix
chapter 6|18 pages
Towards an Eastern South Asian community
chapter 7|22 pages
The elephant and the panda – India and China
part III|62 pages
Identity, migration and structural dimensions
chapter 10|17 pages
From periphery to the centre
part IV|64 pages
Looking in – outside out: Northeast of India related to India’s foreign policymaking