1st Edition

Interrogating International Relations India's Strategic Practice and the Return of History

By Jayashree Vivekanandan Copyright 2011
272 Pages
by Routledge India

272 Pages
by Routledge India

272 Pages
by Routledge India

The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream international relations today, and problematises the several tropes that have come to typify the strategic histories of post-colonial societies such as India. Questioning a range of long-held cultural representations on India, the book challenges such portrayals and underscores the centrality of context and... Read more

List of Maps and Tables.  List of Abbreviations  1. Temporal Journeys: Reorienting International Relations  2. India’s Strategic Practice: Theory Meets Practice  3. The Making of Mughal Grand Strategy: Material and Ideational Influences  4. Strategies of Conciliation and Coercion: Two Case Studies  5. Conclusion: New Directions in International Relations.  Appendix.  References

Biography

Jayashree Vivekanandan is currently Senior Research Associate with the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi.