The Diplomacy Of India

Diplomacy is conventionally understood as a European invention that gained international traction through the spread of colonialism. Consequently, scholars believe the moment of India's colonial liberation was in fact a false dawn, for the liberated, having internalized a European logic, mimicked Western practice. Postcolonial Indians are therefore anything but free. Abandoning this Eurocentric model, Deep K. Datta-Ray investigates what actually happens inside a foreign ministry, based on unique participant observation within India's bureaucracy. His findings reveal practices deeply confounding to Western diplomats and academics, because they defy the parameters of known models. To explain these practices, Datta-Ray develops a framework for understanding the ideas within which Indian diplomacy operates. He traces the transformation of diplomacy from Mughal times to the present, outlining the concepts underpinning Indian foreign policy, which disclose abiding continuities within Indian diplomacy from the days of the Mahabharata to nuclear policy. In doing so, he not only challenges the received wisdom on diplomacy but also reframes common conceptions of the Indian state.

This Is The First Major Attempt To Analyse The Whole Gamut Of India'S Foreign Policy Since Independence. Combining Different Methodological Apparaches, The Author Has Divded The Book In Three Different Part. This First Is Devoted To The Factors That Determine The Country'S Foreign Policy. The Second Part Is Devoted To The Four Goals That Are The Very Basis Of India'S Vis-A-Vis The Outside World. These Are Security, Modernisation, Regional Hegemony And International Role-Playing. The Book Defines Each Of These Goals, And Analyses Their Evolution From The Past. The Third Part Pertains To Ecision Making. (Also Read: Inside Diplomacy, Revised Paperback Edition By Ambassador Kishan S. Rana, Details Inside)

Introduction -- Delusive utopia -- Irrepressible present -- Theorizing the uncontainable -- Inverted 'history' -- Death of diplomacy -- Diplomacy reborn -- Violence of ignorance -- Conclusions: In the shadow of power politics.

An integrated picture of India's global vision, its foreign policy, and the negotiating practices that link the two. In recent decades, India has grown as a global power, and has been able to pursue its own goals in its own way. Negotiating for India's Global Role gives an insightful and integrated analysis of India’s ability to manage its evolving role. Former ambassadors Teresita and Howard Schaffer shine a light on the country’s strategic vision, foreign policy, and the negotiating behavior that links the two. The four concepts woven throughout the book offer an exploration of India today: its exceptionalism; nonalignment and the drive for “strategic autonomy;” determination to maintain regional primacy; and, more recently, its surging economy. With a specific focus on India’s stellar negotiating practice, Negotiating for India's Global Role is a unique, comprehensive understanding of India as an emerging international power player, and the choices it will face between its classic view of strategic autonomy and the desirability of finding partners in the fast-evolving world.

Rich with human detail and penetrating analysis, this insider account chronicles the remarkable negotiations between the United States and India after three nuclear devices shook the Thar Desert in 1998, initiating one of the most suspenseful diplomatic dramas of recent memory.

How has India’s foreign policy evolved in the seventy years since Independence? For that matter, what is the country’s foreign policy? And what are the aspects that determine and shape it? If you’ve had questions such as these, Rajendra Abhyankar’s Indian Diplomacy is the foreign policy primer you’ve been looking for. Charting the country’s interactions with other countries from the early days of independence to now, Indian Diplomacy reviews the changes in stance. Lucidly written and well argued, the book covers these and other questions comprehensively, without fuss or bombast. A much-needed book in light of the sweeping changes on the global stage—and India’s increasing role in them. General reader, politicians, historians, and journalists who specialize in foreign policy and contemporary politics as well as think tanks and policymakers

This book explores the diplomatic, political, strategic, and ideological cross-currents in the fragile but promising state-to-state relationship between China and India. Set in a geopolitical context ten years after the two Asian neighbours had agreed to fashion a Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, the analysis is focused on the promise as well as the portents. Looking ahead, the author envisions a sunrise idea of Sino–Indian Smart Zone as a possible post-modern scenario. Contents:Sunrise Powers of the Twenty-First Century:Global Status of China and IndiaSnap-Shot of Economic and Military ProfilesStrategic SynergiesNew Sea-Cyber-Space Paradigm of PowerMore than What Meets the EyeGames and Counter-GamesA Space-Leap ForwardTowards China–India Synergy in SpaceIdeologies of the Heart and the Mind:Lure and Logic of Sino–Indian Five PrinciplesBeyond the Original Tibetan ContextUnusual 'Niche' for Five PrinciplesNonalignment and Neo-NonalignmentThe Anti-Hegemony NormInterests and Concerns:The Core of Sino–Indian TiesThe Pakistan FactorA Nuclear DimensionThe Tibet PuzzleIndia's 'Closed Window' on TibetSynergies and Power Politics:An Upswing in India–US Defence TiesRussia and a Tale of Two FriendsThe Xi DoctrineSino–Indian Counter-Terror SynergyTowards Sino–Indian Economic SynergyA Unique China–India Nuclear MantraChina and India in the US CalculusAn Asian Security CouncilA Creative Scenario:Strategic and Historic BordersA History-Shaping PulloutEnigmatic Realities'Clarification of Line of Actual Control''One-China, One-India'Talking the Walk Towards…:From 'Strategic Partnership' to 'Major-Power' EngagementIndia Asks China to Reconsider its ApproachPlain Markers for the FutureAppendices:China's Perspective on IndiaIndia's Perspective on ChinaAn Internationalist Perspective on China–India Ties Readership: Students and researchers interested in China–India relations;diplomats, policy makers, scholars, journalists and general readers. Key Features:By being focused on China–India relations in the context of a newly-‘assertive’ India, the book differs significantly from other titles on Sino–Indian issuesEmphasizes the new model of neighbourliness between two ‘rival’ states and the imaginative scenario of a possible Sino–Indian Smart Zone that could become a Sino–Indian Hemisphere