While India has quietly moved from cold war politics to globalizations, barring China, India's other neighbours are yet to overcome the Cold War mentality. The result is that a section of the ruling elite among India's neighbours perceive things in terms of pressure points vis-a-vis India or try to thrive on anti-India sentiment. This has retarded the growth of healthier relations between India…
Global Politics: A New Introduction is an innovative new textbook that provides a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and theories and also to develop a critical and inquiring perspective.
This book traces the process from the earliest mention of Suvarnadbhumi in the Ramayana to Lee Kuan Yew's letter to Lal Bahadur Shastri within moments of declaring independence on 9 August 1965, from the Tata's pioneering industrial training venture in Singapore to Singapore's Information Technology Park in Bangalore. It explains the part Lee played in India's emergence as a player in the emerg…
Fully revised and updated, this fifth edition of the history of international politics since 1945 is an ideal introduction for all students seeking an accessible guide to world events in the post-war era up to 2004
This book is an update of India Decides 1952-1991. It incorporates the data of the important 1989 and 1991 elections and the state and by-elections since than.
The world is now engaged with India already established as a major power, advancing in every sphere of development: political, diplomatic, socio-economic, scientific, technological, and cultural. The distinguished foreign affairs analysts, scholars and eminent diplomats invited by the Foreign Service Institute (Government of India) to write chapters for this book on Indian foreign policy, have …
India's World is a collection of news- paper columns and essays on India's immediate foreign policy and security. concerns written between 1999 and 2005. Each of these essays is a carefully researched and in-depth look at a critical issue. As the author says in the preface, India's world is a very small place, but the problems neve- rtheless are thorny and many. Above all, they are not going to…
This primer introduces the concept of RTD as well as discusses its practical application in the Indian setting. It is divided accordingly into two sections, the first of which traces the origins and the evolution of the idea of RTD. This section identifies the defining parameters and content of RTD and focuses especially on the three rights―the rights to food, education and health―that have…
This book comprises a set of essays written around the problems and conflicts that inhere in notions of community, nation and nationalism in South Asia, and more particularly India, as seen from the perspective of the closing years of the twentieth century.
A cutting-edge exploration of America's stake in India's ongoing efforts to become a global power depicts the region as the world's fastest-growing center of technology, global economics, and democracy, outlining the challenges facing the country to enable rapid change in environmentally sustainable and politically viable ways.