ABSTRACT
What does the foreign policy formulation process look like in India? Who are the actors and institutions involved? What is the path that the policy-making process takes to achieve a discourse on Pakistan? Where do think tanks fit within such a process? These and many other questions will be considered in the following chapter. Drawing attention to literature on Indian foreign policy and the particular role of think tanks as foreign policy actors, this chapter considers the origins and development of foreign policy think tanks in India. It looks closely at their changing relevance and position as agents within the policy-making system, particularly with regards to India’s Pakistan policy during the structured dialogue process initiated in 2004.
