This book brings together new perspectives on India’s foreign policy in the light of a constantly shifting world order. From India’s relations in its immediate neighborhood to its China policy, from India-US relations under Biden to Quad, from Grand Strategy to peacekeeping, this book brings to the fore the shifting terrains of global politics and India’s significant place in it.
The chapters in the volume:
- Critically examine changing preoccupations of India’s foreign policy and its geopolitical interests, including its Act East Policy;
- Include comprehensive inputs on India’s China policy and relations with Japan;
- Explore India’s relations with the USA, the Middle-East, Afghanistan, and Central Asia;
- Discuss at length India’s nuclear, energy, and foreign investment policies;
- Analyze India’s positioning on the emergence of the Indo-Pacific discourse.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science and international relations. It will also be of use to foreign policy and diplomacy practitioners, career bureaucrats and government think tanks.
1. India-China Relations: Perceptions and Policies – Dr Amrita Jash 2. India’s Foreign towards China since 2014 – Prof. Emanual Nahar and Shayama Devi 3. Investment Screening as the New Foreign Policy Tool: Has India learned to use it? – Angshuman Hazarika 4. India's Act East Policy: A Balancing Act in Asia/Indo - Pacific? - Kaustav Padmapati 5. India and Japan: Post World War II to Present, A Brief Account – Likith Hegde 6. India’s Nuclear and Foreign Policy – Balraj Singh Nagal 7. India’s Rising Strategic Proximity with the United States: China Factor – Hilal Ramzan and Nishtha Kaushiki 8. The US’s Afghanistan Endgame: Challenges and Options for Indian Foreign Policy – Priya Gauttam and Dr. Bawa Singh 9. India and The Middle East: Challenges to Protecting its Interests – Rajendra M. Abhyankar 10. India Relationship with Israel and Palestine: A Realist Approach – Priya Agrawal 11. India’s Eurasian Energy Policy and its Geopolitical Interests- Dr. Reema Duggal 12. India and Germany: Ambitions, Friendship and A Prospect to Shape the Future –Abhinandan Bhardwaj 13. India and the Rome Statute – Dr. Sangeeta Taak 14. Dynamics of Sino-Pak Relationship and India's Response- Dr. Manjit Kaur and Dr. Gurvel Singh Malhi
Biography
Shveta Dhaliwal is tenured faculty in the Department of Political Science, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India. Currently she is serving as Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Thapar University, Punjab, India. She is also Visiting Faculty, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic and has been appointed as Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. She is International Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law (ICIRL), Laurentian University, Canada. She has recently received a US Department of State Fellowship to study foreign relations institutions.
