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Experts here throw light on India’s foreign policy. The volume has essays written over the last one and a half decades on India’s external relations, challenging some commonly held perceptions and offering new insights on the development of India’s foreign policy. They examine myths about India’s foreign policy such as that it lacks a strategic culture and it is formulated without any clear guiding principles in view. They delve into major ...
The book stresses the importance of India’s conception of its security and its security practices for the region of Asia. The writings of scholars on aspects concerned with India’s national security deal with the national security issues particularly insurgency and terrorism and the way the country has responded to the challenges. They take up for scrutiny the nuclear history of India covering the nuclear tests conducted in 1998. They view ...
This volume brings together George K. Tanham's much-quoted RAND essay, 'Indian Strategic Thought', his sequel essay, 'Indian Strategy in Flux?' and specially commissioned commentaries by five Indian scholars. Most of our understanding about strategy is coloured by information from the West and the former Soviet Union. While this may have been acceptable during the Cold War, it is no longer so. In the coming three decades a ...