Contemporary Debates in Indian Foreign and Security Policy: India Negotiates Its Rise in the International System

ISBN-13: 9780230604582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 202 str.

Professor Harsh V. Pant

Opis

As a consequence of India's attempts to carve out a foreign policy that is in sync with India's rising stature in the international system, Indian foreign and security policy is currently dealing with a range of issues that are controversial but central to the future of Indian global strategy. These include India's relations with the US, the idea of a strategic triangle involving Russia, China and India, India's nuclear doctrine and its impact on the emerging civil-military relations, India's position of the ballistic missile defense system, India's relations with Iran and Israel, and India's quest for energy security. On almost all these issues, there is an intense debate in the Indian polity and the strategic community and how this debate resolves itself will in many ways determine the direction of Indian foreign policy for years to come. This book attempts to examine these issues so as to deduce some major trends in the Indian foreign policy of today.

Recenzje

'The volume makes an excellent contribution for teaching courses on South Asian security and foreign policy, as well as for international relations courses that seek to expand the traditional discussion about Great Power politics to includ regional and emerging global powers. . . The volume is well written, clearly organized, and very accessible. . . It would be valuable as well for those in the policy community who seek to understand foreign and security policy from the Indian domestic perspective.' - Sunila S. Kale, The Review of Politics

'Harsh Pant's lucid volume succeeds in vaulting over older debates regarding India's foreign policy. Pant engages in a fresh discussion on the new challenges that face an increasingly ambitious and influential India. Anyone concerned about the prospects and implications of India's emergence as a global power will learn a great deal from Pant's careful scholarship.' - Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations

'Harsh Pant has not only produced a detailed analysis of key elements of the Indian debate over grand strategy, he offers a tour d'horizon of India's emerging role in a fast-changing world. India is no longer the sluggish state of the past - its dynamic economy makes it possible to imagine new strategic roles and a new relationship with the US, China, and other powers. Contemporary Debates is both timely and provocative, a welcome addition to the must-read literature on rising India.' - Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA

'This volume constitutes a topical, comprehensive and informed discussion of a set of critical challenges facing India's foreign policy. Given the paucity of scholarship on this subject this work represents a most welcome addition to the literature. It should be of use to academics, journalists, and policymakers interested in the foreign and security policies of an emergent Asian power.' - Sumit Ganguly, Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

'Pant's excellent, timely review of the critical strategic choices confronting India will be of great interest to scholars, jouranlists, and policy makers. . . Recommended.' - CHOICE

Spis treści

Introduction India-US Relations: Beginning of a beautiful Relationship? Russia-China-India 'Strategic Triangle:' An Idea Whose Time May Never Come India and Iran: Too Close For Comfort India and Israel: Uneasy Embrace Civil-Military Relations After the Nuclear Doctrine India and Missile Defense: Lull After a Storm India's Quest for Energy Security

O autorze

HARSH V. PANT Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at King's College, London, UK.