India in the Indo-Pacific: Understanding India's Security Orientation Towards Southeast and East Asia

ISBN-13: 9783847424741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 360 str.

Aditi Malhotra

Spis treści

1. Contextualising the Indo-Pacific
1.1 Mapping India's Rise in the Indo-Pacific
1.2 The Puzzle
1.3 Overview of the Argument
1.4 Relevance and Significance
1.5 Structure of the Book
2. Literature Review and Conceptual Framework
2.1 Balance of Power Theory (Neorealism)
2.2 Constructivism
2.3 Alternate Theoretical Explanation: Role Theory
2.4 Methodology
3. Historical Overview of India's Role Conceptions: 1947-2000
3.1 Early Years to Early 1960s: Non-Aligned Asian Power and Peacemaker
3.2 Mid-1960s to Late 1980s: Subcontinental Power and Security-Seeker
3.3 Early to Late 1990s: Emerging Economic Actor and Benign Power
3.4 Summary and Conclusion of the Chapter
4. India's Master and Auxiliary RCs: Emergence and Evolution
4.1 Major Power Role (2001 onwards)
4.2 Emerging Auxiliary RCs (2001-14)
4.3 Master RC: Leading Power Role (2015 onwards)
4.4 Act East Policy
4.5 Summary and Conclusion of the Chapter
5. Self-Conception: Domestic Determinants of Role Conception
5.1 Permanent Determinants
5.2 New Determinant: Rise in Economic Potential
5.3 Growing Salience of Naval Factor
5.4 Reasons behind the Conception-Performance Gap
5.5 Summary and Conclusion of the Chapter
6. Role Prescription: External Determinants of Role Conception
6.1 India and China
6.2 India and the United States
6.3 India and Japan
6.4 ASEAN Countries and India
6.5 Summary and Conclusion of the Chapter
7. Conclusion
7.1 Contributions
7.2 Changing Role Conceptions
7.3 Drivers of Changing Role Conceptions
7.4 The Conception-Performance Gap
7.5 Implications of the Study
7.6 Limitations of Study and Directions for Future Research
Bibliography

O autorze

Aditi Malhotra is a co-editor of the Journal for Intelligence, Propaganda and Security Studies (JIPSS). She completed her Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Politics (GrasP), Institute for Political Science, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Münster.