Global Power: India's Foreign Policy 1947-2006

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Lexington Books, 2008 - History - 303 pages
This book examines India as a rising global power by reevaluating its foreign policy and relations from the Nehru period to the present through an analytical framework constructed from Indian foreign policy and the processes of globalization and regionalization. Global Power describes the economic, scientific, technological, and nuclear gains that have been made by India, reaffirming its status as a major actor on the international scene.
 

Contents

A Critique of Existing Paradigms
1
Indian Foreign Policy An Overview
19
Indias Economic Diplomacy
49
IndoUS Relations Estrangement to Engagement
75
India and Russia Reassessing the TimeTested Ties
109
IndiaChina Relations Issues and Emerging Trends
135
IndiaPakistan Relations Sources of Hostility and Reconciliation
159
India and the Middle East Asia
193
India and Central Asia
207
Translating the Global Power Ambition
219
Appendix
231
Bibliography
275
Index
293
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B.M. Jain is honorable academician and research professor at the International Noble Academy in Toronto. He is also editor-in-chief ofThe Indian Journal of Asian Affairs.

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