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Indian Foreign Policy: The Politics of Postcolonial Identity from 1947 to 2004 book cover

1st Edition

Indian Foreign Policy The Politics of Postcolonial Identity from 1947 to 2004

By Priya Chacko Copyright 2012
238 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India’s foreign and security policies as representational practices which produce India’s identity as a postcolonial nation-state helps to illuminate the conditions of possibility in which foreign policy is made. Spanning the period between 1947 and... Read more

1. Introduction  Part 1: India as a ‘Moral Power’ 1947-1964  2. Nuclear Technology, Disarmament and the Ambivalence of Postcolonial Identity  3. Rejecting the ‘Fear Complex’: Constructing an International Politics of Friendship   4. Friendship to ‘Betrayal’: The India-China War  Part 2: Grappling with Postcoloniality: 1964-2004  5.Interventions and Explosions: Wither an Ethical Modernity?  6. India in South Asia: Danger, Desire, Friendship and Fraternity  7. Foreign Policy, Identity and the BJP: Correcting the 'emasculation of state power'?  8. Conclusion 

Biography

Priya Chacko is a Lecturer in International Politics in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her research interests include the normative basis of Indian foreign policy, non-Western thought in International Relations, and India’s engagement with Africa and global governance.

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