1st Edition

India’s Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy Strategic Pluralism and Subcultures

By Bernhard Beitelmair-Berini Copyright 2022
212 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The book explores the competing grand strategic worldviews shaping India’s foreign and security policies by analyzing the interaction between normative modern international relations theories and vernacular concepts of statecraft and strategy. To assess the diverse competing ideas which characterize India’s debates on grand strategy and foreign policy, the author presents the... Read more

Introduction  1. How to Delineate India’s Strategic Pluralism?  2. Strategic Culture as an IR Concept  3. India’s Strategic Culture Debate  4. Cleavage Theory and International Relations  5. India’s Grand Strategic Cleavages  6. A Case Study: India’s Israel Policy  7. The Subculture-Cleavage Model: A Heuristic Tool to Grasp Strategic Pluralism?

Biography

Bernhard Beitelmair-Berini is an associate member of the South Asia Institute (SAI) at Heidelberg University, Germany.