India and West Asia in the Era of Globalisation

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India’s foreign policy posture in recent years, particularly towards the region of West Asia and North Africa (WANA), has been a subject of intense debate. India’s growing relationship with the US and Israel, and its ‘lukewarm stand’ on Iraqi crisis and Iranian nuclear issue has been seen as a fundamental shift in the Indian foreign policy exercise. Critics have accused the succeeding Indian governments during the past one and half decades of abandoning its ‘Independent’ foreign policy, of deviating from Nehruvian national consensus in Foreign policy matters, and towing the pro-American line. Others have argued that the radical shift in the orientation of Indian foreign policy in terms of its pro-American tilt bears the mark of "realism" and "Pragmatism" that is dictated by the demand of globalisation. Therefore, at a broader level, this book seeks to capture the emerging orientation of Indian state vis-Ã -vis the region of WANA in the context of globalisation. In particular, it examines the political, economic, cultural, security and diasporic dimensions of the evolving relationship between India and countries of WANA in the context of globalisation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anwar Alam

Anwar Alam is currently Professor and Director, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and Assistant and Associate Professor at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has been awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (1991), International Visitor Programme (Islamic) Scholarship, USA, (2002) and Indo-French Social Scientist Exchange Programme Fellowship (2003) and alexandor von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2006). He has been Visiting Fellow at Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, Centre for Citizenship and Ethnicity, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK and at International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, Netherlands. He has authored 4 books. Besides, he has contributed several articles in national and international referred journals and chapters in edited books. His areas of research interest include International Politics, Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Political Islam, Globalization and Muslim Society.