India’s economic interests and its self imagination as an emerging global power have assumed a higher priority in defining India’s foreign policy and security goals since early 1990s. This has guided the Indian policy makers to intensify its engagements with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other GCC countries – around which Indian foreign policy in the region revolves today in the political and economic sense of the term. This book deals with evolving political and economic dynamics and interactions of India with global and regional powers in West Asia, with particular focus on Persian Gulf in the post-Cold War period. It examines India’s multi-dimensional relations with global powers such as USA, Russia, China and regional powers and organizations like Iran, Israel, Turkey and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) respectively.
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.
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