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India’s Foreign Policy Discourse and its Conceptions of World Order The Quest for Power and Identity
By Thorsten Wojczewski
Copyright 2018
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Given India’s growing power and aspirations in world politics, there has been increasing interest among practitioners and scholars of international relations (IR) in how India views the world. This book offers the first systematic investigation of the world order models in India’s foreign policy discourse. By examining how the signifier ‘world order’ is endowed with meaning in the discourse,... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Discourse, Foreign Policy and Identity 3. Global Power Shifts and World Order: The Contestation of ‘Western’ Discursive Hegemony 4. The Evolution and Dislocation of the Nehruvian Foreign Policy Discourse 5. Post-Nehruvianism: India’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy Discourse in the Post-Cold War Era 6. The Hyper-Nationalist Discourse: Making India Strong 7. Conclusion
Biography
Thorsten Wojczewski is a Teaching Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher at the India Institute, King’s College London, UK.






