Happymon Jacob
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The book addresses two major questions: whether India has a strategic culture which informs the country’s foreign, defence and security thinking and whether India’s foreign and security policies are based on a coherent strategic thinking. The volume, in other words, explores India’s strategic culture, which shapes the country’s strategic thought. From theories of grand strategy to critical constructivist interpretations, a whole range of ...
Since adopting liberal economic policies two dacades ago, India has become one of the two fastest growing economies in the world. While India has been reaching out to various regions such as southeast Asia and the middle East for expansion and strengthening its linkages, its relations with its immediate South Asian neighbours remain problematic. Her bilateral relations with the other regional countries have traditionally been contentious due to border issues as ...
Kashmir and Indo-Pak Relations, Politics of Reconciliation offers a no-holds-barred account of the developments in Kashmir politics and India-Pakistan relations as they unfolded between 2008 and 2013.Culled out from the author’s popular Sunday column in the Srinagar-based Greater Kashmir newspaper “statecraft” and other Op-eds, the book promises to take the reader beyond the traditional narratives on Kashmir and India-Pakistan relations. ...
The Taliban were god-like figures for a war-torn country’s war-weary people. They promised to rid the country of anarchy, lawlessness and disintegration and thus earned the support of afghans. The Taliban were defeated, or so we were told, by the Americans when the Frankenstein came back to haunt them. The Taliban were consigned to the dustbin of history, or so we thought, when Hamid Karzai was anointed as the newest ruler in Kabul. However, if lessons of ...