ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the continuation of great power narratives in Foreign Policy texts as they were again employed to negotiate self/other relations, and more importantly make 'sense of self' especially in postcolonial encounters with nuclear India. It examines the continuation of basic subject-positions through Foreign Policy of the Bill Clinton administration as great power narratives were further perpetuated. The book evaluates how the Barack Obama administration was able to continue with the previous administration's nuclear policy towards India despite visible preference of the Democrats for global non-proliferation. It demonstrates that the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations' nuclear foreign policies vis-a-vis India were not a result of simplistic emplotment of 'self' versus 'other'. The link between state identity formation and foreign policy/Foreign Policy thus leads to an understanding that identity is always negotiated in a historically contextualised framework.
