India: The Foreign and Security Policy Under the Modi Doctrine

Since becoming India’s prime minister in 2014, Nerendra Modi has been a tour de force in foreign policynakung. A vastly experienced administrator who has held key public positions as chief minister of an Indian state for more than a decade and now as prime minister, he has always seen value in foreign affairs and devoted special attention to it with his unique enterpreneurial flair and coherent set of ideas. This book is amongst the first serious attempts to review the direction India is now taking to pursue its ‘enlightened self-interest’, after a prolonged spell spent under a Nehruvian world-view, suffering its resultant hangover. This book provides the answers by delving into the mind and method behind Narendra Modi’s avatar as India’s diplpmatin-chief. It argues that under his able watch, India is heading toward great power status in the international order.