This volume objectively evaluates the headwinds of comprehensive security challenges that India would confront in the years ahead. Over nearly two decades, India has made successful transitions to ‘emerge’ on the regional and global scene, but informed and reasoned analyses of the multi-dimensional dangers that loom large, and the common opportunities available, have been lacking. This lacu…
In "Monsoon," a pivotal examination of the Indian Ocean region and the countries known as "Monsoon Asia," bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan deftly shows how crucial this dynamic area has become to American power in the twenty-first century. Kaplan also offers riveting insights into the economic and naval strategies of China and India and how they will affect U.S. interests, while also providi…
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…
India's foreign policy and defence imperatives, initially guided by Jawaharlal Nehru's somewhat limited vision of 'world peace', could not foresee the fact that working for such an idyll would be impossible when military might and economic development began to complement each other, as is now the case.
This book is a significant contribution to the growing debate in India on national security and the country's role in the emerging international system. The author, Mr Jaswant Singh, now the Deputy Chairman, planning commission is the political leader of highest standing to address the issues of security and foreign policy in the last 50 years of Indian independence in an analytical way in a bo…
This book examines the areas of comprehensive security and the growing understanding between India and Southeast Asia where there less divergence and greater convergence. The author argues that India-Southeast Asia security convergence is not and should not be aimed at any particular country. On an optimistic note he concludes that such convergence will contribute to creating harmony among the …