An Asian Triangle bringing together India, China, Russia into a strategic partnership attracted public attention when it was first mooted at the end of the nineties. The East-West, the Sino-Soviet and the Sino-Indian cold wars had receded in popular memory and a triangular equation gained enough credibility to deserve closer examination. The validity of an Asian Triangle remains to be substantiated. Has this geometric figure a life of its own, can it further the cause of multipolarity or is it just a tool for its constituents to improve their standing vis-?-vis the United States in a unipolar world? These are some of the questions in their multifaceted dimensions (historical, geopolitical, economic, strategic) addressed in this book, analyzing the dynamics, the expectations as well as the contradictions inherent to this construct, but keeping in mind that the outcome will have a bearing on the future of the world order.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frederic Grare
Frederic Grare is Director of the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He holds a Ph. D. in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva and had previously worked for the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies in Geneva. Dr. Grare’s recent publications include: India and ASEAN: The Politics of India’s Look-East Policy (co-edited with A. Mattoo), Islamism and Security: Political Islam and the Western World, Tajikistan: The Trials of Independence (co-authored with Shirin Akiner and Mohammed-Reza Djalili) and Political Islam in the Indian Subcontinent: The Jamaat-i-Islami.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gilles Boquerat
Gilles Boquerat holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Sorbonne. He is currently Head of Department of International Relations at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He is also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de I’Inde et de I’Asie du Sud (Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies), Paris. Dr. Boquerat has published a number of articles on India’s foreign policy in international journals as well as edited volumes. He is the co-editor of India in the Mirror of Foreign Diplomatic Archives (Manohar, 2003).
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