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Blank page Indian foreign policy Blank page Indian foreign policy An overview Harsh V. Pant Manchester University Press Copyright © Harsh V. Pant 2016 The right of Harsh V. Pant to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 1 7849 9335 1 hardback ISBN 978 1 7849 9336 8 paperback First published 2016 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Out of House Publishing To the loving memory of Ija Blank page Contents Preface page ix 1 Introduction 1 Snapshot 1: Indian foreign and security policy-making structures 17 Part I India and major powers 21 2 India and the United States: an emerging partnership 23 3 India and China: an uneasy relationship 35 4 India and Russia: convergence across time 50 5 India and the European Union: a relationship in search of meaning 64 Snapshot 2: The BRICS fallacy 75 Part II India and its neighborhood 79 6 India and Pakistan: a road to nowhere 81 7 India and Bangladesh: a difficult partnership 94 8 Nepal and Sri Lanka: India struggles to retain its relevance 107 9 India and Afghanistan: a test case for a rising power 118 Snapshot 3: India and Bhutan 132 Part III India’s extra-regional outreach 135 10 India in East and Southeast Asia: “acting” East with an eye on China 137 11 India in Africa and Central Asia: part of the new “Great Game” 149 12 India and the Middle East: a fine balance 161 13 India in the Indian Ocean: colliding ambitions with China 178 Snapshot 4: India and Latin America 192 viii Contents Part IV India and the global order 195 14 India as a regional security provider: from activism to forced diffidence 197 15 India and the global nuclear order: a quiet assimilation 212 16 India and multilateralism: from the periphery to the center 224 Snapshot 5: India’s tryst with terrorism 236 Index 238
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