Foreign Policy of India : Continuity and Change

Contents: I. India's foreign policy: general: 1. Understanding India's foreign policy : non-alignment and the way ahead/K.S. Pavithran. 2. Technology transfer and India's foreign policy/S. Shaji. 3. Managing Indian economic diplomacy in the era of globalization/M. Basheer Ahmed Khan. 4. India's energy security : challenges and opportunities/A. Subramanyam Raju. 5. India and the present global order: a security perspective/Suresh R. 7. Indian foreign policy through case studies/Jigar Patel and Hardik Mehta. II. India and China: 7. Challenges across the Himalayas: need for a firm/pragmatic foreign policy towards China/Sudhir Jacob George. 8. Maritime dimensions of India-China relations/R.S. Vasan. 9. India's policy towards rising China/G. Supriya and Mohanan B. Pillai. 10. India's look east policy: an empirical study/Amal Sarkar. III. India, Pakistan and West Asia: 11. Changing threat perception from West Asia: India's options/A.K. Pasha. 12. Indo-Pak relations: new trends/Sudhir Singh. 13. Three frontiers theory and India's troubled relations with Pakistan and China/L. Premashekhara. IV. India and South Asia: 14. India's threat matrix and South Asia/M.D. Nalapat. 15. Struggle for democracy in Myanmar: India's response/V. Suryanarayan. 16. Nation-building and foreign policy behaviour of India in the regional setting of South Asia/P.M. Joshy and Mohanan B. Pillai. 17. Conflicts and co-operation on trans-boundary waters in South Asia/Deepa Karthykeyan. 18. Regional integration in South Asia: reflections on EC/EU paradigm/Jayaraj Amin. V. India and Sri Lanka: 19. Emerging trends in Sri Lanka: an Indian perspective/R. Swaminathan. 20. Is Tamil Nadu the Villain in India-Sri Lanka relations?/V. Suryanarayan. 21. Maritime dimensions of Indo-Sri Lanka relations/R.S. Vasan. 22. Post-war challenges in Sri Lanka: policy options for India/S.Y. Surendra Kumar. 23. Human rights situation in Sri Lanka and Indian response: narratives of refugees/survivors/Ramu Manivannan. 24. India-Sri Lanka relations: impact of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka/Jacob Ashik Bonofer. VI. India, US and Europe: 25. Contemporary development in US-Pakistan relations: impact on Indian Foreign Policy/M.J. Vinod. 26. India-EU strategic partnership: perspectives for the 21 century/B. Krishnamurthy. 27. India's 123 Nuclear Agreement with the US/D. Purushothaman. VII. India and Africa: 28. Competition for Africa: challenges and opportunities for Indian Foreign Policy/Vijay Prakasam G.V. Index.

"Professing and practicing non-alignment has been the hallmark of India's foreign policy since independence in 1947. The initiative for Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)--the biggest independent and informal association of countries on a sui generis basis-came from three nations, viz. India, Yugoslavia and Egypt, represented by the three statesmen Jawaharlal Nehru. Joseph Tito and Gamal Abdel Nasser respectively. From its modest beginnings at the Belgrade Conference in 1961 with a participation of 25 nations, the NAM has expanded to include 119 members at the Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt) Conference in July 2009.

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union ushered a new era in Indian economy and polity and consequently in India's foreign policy. India unveiled the look east policy in 1991. East Asia--including Japan, China, South Korea and ASEAN--is today India's largest trading partner, ahead of EU and the US.

India's foreign policy posture in recent years, particularly towards the region of West Asia and North Africa (WANA) has been a subject of intense debate. India's growing relationship with the US and Israel, and its lukewarm stand on Iraqi crisis and Iranian nuclear issue is seen as a fundamental shift in the Indian foreign policy exercise. Critics have accused the succeeding Indian governments during the past two decades of abandoning its independent foreign policy, of deviating from Nehruvian national consensus in Foreign policy matters, and towing the Pro-American line. Others have argued that the radical shift in the orientation of Indian foreign policy in terms of its pro-American tilt bears the mark of realism and pragmatism that is dictated by the demands of globalisation.

The present book contains 28 scholarly papers-contributed by experts in the field--which provide deep insights into the various dimensions of India's foreign policy, focusing on recent developments." (jacket)