India S Foreign Policy Discourse And Its Conceptions Of World Order

Given India’s growing power and aspirations in world politics, there has been increasing interest among practitioners and scholars of international relations (IR) in how India views the world. This book offers the first systematic investigation of the world order models in India’s foreign policy discourse. By examining how the signifier ‘world order’ is endowed with meaning in the discourse, it moves beyond Western-centric IR and sheds light on how a state located outside the Western ‘core’ conceptualizes world order. Drawing on poststructuralism and discourse theory, the book proposes a novel analytical framework for studying foreign policy discourses and understanding the changes and continuities in India’s post-cold war foreign policy. It shows that foreign policy and world order have been crucial sites for the (re)production of India’s identity by drawing a political frontier between the Self and a set of Others and placing India into a system of differences that constitutes ‘what India is’. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of Indian foreign policy, foreign policy analysis, South Asian studies, IR and IR theory, international political thought and global order studies.

Introduction -- Discourse, foreign policy and identity -- Global power shifts and world order : the contestation of "western" discursive hegemony -- The evolution and dislocation of the Nehruvian foreign policy discourse -- Post-Nehruvianism : India's hegemonic foreign policy discourse in the post-cold war era -- The hyper-nationalist discourse : making India strong -- Conclusion

Domestic And External Determinants Of India'S Foreign Policy, During The Last Two Decades, Have Undergone Significant Transformations. These Have Led To Reorientation In India'S World View And Its Relations With Other Nation States. Magnitude Of These Changes Has Been So Vast That It Has Resulted In Paradigm Shift In India'S Foreign Policy. The Volume Provides Theoretical Understanding Of The Emerging World Order, And Also Reveals About The Operational Dynamics Of Such Change In The New Millennium. India'S Interactions With Global Power Centers, Neighbours, Extended Neighbourhood And Regions And Institutions Have Also Been Examined. India'S Security Concerns In The Post-Nuclear Status Period Have Been Evaluated Vis-À-Vis Conventional And Non-Conventional Threats. Even Issues Like Energy Security And Economic Policies Are Given Ample Space Visualizing The Contemporary Global Economic Developments. New Concerns In The Form Of International Terrorism, Environment And Refugees Have Been Incorporated To Provide A Holistic Picture Of Changing Contours Of India'S Foreign Policy. The Book May Be Beneficial For Students, Teachers, Diplomats, Policy Makers, As Well As, Common Readers Engaged In Understanding The Current Discourse On India'S Foreign Policy Moorings.

This volume offers a comprehensive evaluation of the concept of global order, with a particular emphasis on the role of regional organisations within global governance institutions such as the United Nations. Building from a solid theoretical base it draws upon the expertise of numerous leading international scholars offering a broad array of timely and relevant case studies. These all take into consideration the historical setting, before analysing the contemporary situation and offering suggestions for potential realignments and readjustments that may be witnessed in the future. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach when addressing some of the most pressing issues of global governance which our global community must tackle. This presents the readers an opportunity to understand related topics such as political economy, international law, institutions of global governance, in conjunction with the academic field of International Relations (IR). It further helps students and interested readers understand the theoretical and practical foundations to the changing nature of global affairs.

Domestic And External Determinants Of India'S Foreign Policy, During The Last Two Decades, Have Undergone Significant Transformations. These Have Led To Reorientation In India'S World View And Its Relations With Other Nation States. Magnitude Of These Changes Has Been So Vast That It Has Resulted In Paradigm Shift In India'S Foreign Policy. The Volume Provides Theoretical Understanding Of The Emerging World Order, And Also Reveals About The Operational Dynamics Of Such Change In The New Millennium. India'S Interactions With Global Power Centers, Neighbours, Extended Neighbourhood And Regions And Institutions Have Also Been Examined. India'S Security Concerns In The Post-Nuclear Status Period Have Been Evaluated Vis-À-Vis Conventional And Non-Conventional Threats. Even Issues Like Energy Security And Economic Policies Are Given Ample Space Visualizing The Contemporary Global Economic Developments. New Concerns In The Form Of International Terrorism, Environment And Refugees Have Been Incorporated To Provide A Holistic Picture Of Changing Contours Of India'S Foreign Policy. The Book May Be Beneficial For Students, Teachers, Diplomats, Policy Makers, As Well As, Common Readers Engaged In Understanding The Current Discourse On India'S Foreign Policy Moorings.

This volume is the first to analyze populism’s international dimension: its impact on, and interaction with, foreign policy and international politics. The contributions to this volume engage conceptual theoretical issues and overarching questions such as the still under-specified concept of populism or the importance of leadership and the mass media for populism’s global rise. They zoom in on populism’s effect on both different countries’ foreign policies and core international concerns, including the future of the liberal world order and the chances for international conflict and cooperation more generally.

This authoritative work on India's foreign policy rests on the fundamental values of international relations that India has cherished. Efforts have been made to analyze these values and to evaluate to what extent these have been implemented and to what extent these have been effective.

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. Chapter 6 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.taylorfrancis.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.