India’s anticipated rise to prominence in what has been termed the ‘Asian 21st century’ will have a significant impact upon geopolitics in the coming decades. As India’s stature continues to increase across Asia and the world, appreciating which interests and principles structure the country’s international interaction has never been more important. Central to these dynamics is how India’s identity – and the longstanding values, principles and practices underpinning it – acts as the paramount factor that deeply structures the conduct of its international affairs. Acknowledging this centrality, this edited volume uses this factor as its foremost theme of analysis through which to understand and analyse India’s most important regional, great power and diplomatic interactions. Not only providing a mechanism better to appreciate the historical foundations of these relationships, the focus on identity is also necessary to appreciate how the Hindu nationalism of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of Narendra Modi is now permeating Indian diplomacy. For the BJP, the pursuit – and attainment – of global influence and heightened status is the driving imperative of the BJP with regard to India’s contemporary international affairs.
Author(s): Chris Ogden
Series: Europa Country Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 277
City: London
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Rising and Assertive India
PART I: Consolidating Pre-eminence in South Asia
1. India’s New Regional Environment: South Asia 2.0
2. India and the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor
3. Digital Space and Religious Intolerance in South Asia: India and Bangladesh
4. The Offshore Hindu Nation: The Indian Ocean in the Hindu Nationalist Imagination, 1990–2019
PART II: Deepening Great Power Relations
5. The Elusive Settlement: India–China Negotiations Over ‘The Boundary Question’
6. India–Japan Alignment in the Indo-Pacific
7. A Comparative Analysis of Russian and French Strategies towards India and South Asia
8. India and the United States: Friends Elsewhere, Foes at the United Nations
PART III: Articulating a Diplomatic Vision
9. Institutionalization of Paradiplomacy in India
10. Futures in the Making: An Analysis of Indian Climate Policy Articulations
11. India’s Foreign Aid to the Pacific: A Strategic Tool of Cooperation?
12. Attitudes of the Indian-American Diaspora towards Politics in India
13. India’s Response to Covid-19: A Soft Power Perspective
Conclusions: India’s Global Reconfiguration
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