POLITICS AND GEOPOLITICS: DECODING INDIA’S NEIGHBOURHOOD CHALLENGE

Category Politics
Format Hardback
Imprint Rupa
Price 595

ISBN: 978-93-90918-57-7
Pages: 240 pages
Date: 10th August 2021

ABOUT THIS BOOK

A must-read for anyone interested in the foreign policy challenges facing our nation today.

India’s South Asia policy, by its very nature, has to be extremely dynamic and nimble. The Narendra Modi government has also articulated an ambitious ‘Neighbourhood First’

approach and has invested significant diplomatic capital in it over the last few years. But the underlying factors that have traditionally framed India’s difficulties in getting its neighbourhood policy right remain as potent as ever.

Against this backdrop, Politics and Geopolitics brings together some of the finest

thinkers in the country to deliberate on the gamut of political, diplomatic and economic issues that India is facing in its neighbourhood beyond Chinese hostilities and the perennial lack of trust with Pakistan. Each chapter provides an overview of the last few years under the Modi government and evaluates the state of the relationship as it exists today, touching upon the main areas of disputes and charting out a way forward for the bilateral engagement.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Harsh V. Pant is a professor of International Relations at King’s College London. He is Director, Studies and Head of the Strategic Studies Programme at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is also Director (Honorary) of Delhi School of Transnational Affairs at Delhi University. His current research is focused on Asian security issues. His most recent books include New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (Cambridge University Press), India’s Nuclear Policy (Oxford University Press), The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy (Palgrave Macmillan), Handbook of Indian Defence Policy (Routledge) and India’s Afghan Muddle (HarperCollins).