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The Future of Indian Diplomacy Exploring Multidisciplinary Lenses
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Introduction—Changing Nature of Indian Diplomacy: Non-traditional Statecraft Trends Divya Balan
1. Indian Sports Diplomacy: Lessons from Cricket
Avani Sabade
2. Tracing India's Diasporic Diplomacy: A Millennial Survey
Pankaj Jain and Anindita Shome
3. The Role of Immigration (Oral) Histories of South Asians and Its Cultural Impact in the United States of America
Noorie Baig
4. Indian Dance: An Effective Contributor to India's Cultural Diplomacy
Priya Joshi
5. Leveraging Indian Cultural Soft Power in Asia: Opportunities for the Future
Sanjal Shastri
6. Unravelling India's Strategic Foreign Policy in the Global Chessboard
Inamdar Tipusultan Alarsaheb
7. Understanding Political and Diplomatic Leadership and Personality Characteristics in Asia through the Lens of Political Psychology
Shalaka Shah and Sairaj Patki
8. Indian Diplomacy and Its Foreign Policy Approach
Rajendra Abhyankar
9. Worship Facilities in India: A Large Twin Gold Mine for Decarbonisation and Diplomacy
Balaji Kalluri and Pradeep Unni
10. Harnessing Big Data: Enhancing Indian Diplomacy through Artificial Intelligence
Harsh Vasani
Conclusion: Charting the Future of Indian Diplomacy
Eerishika Pankaj and Trishala S
Editors and Contributors
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Biography
Eerishika Pankaj is Director of the Organisation for Research on China and Asia (ORCA), Delhi, India and Convenor of its Global Conference on New Sinology. A China and East Asia scholar, her research focuses on Chinese politics, the India-China border, and regional dynamics. In 2023, she was also recognized as an Emerging Quad Think Tank Leader by the U.S. State Department.
Divya Balan is Assistant Professor and Area Chair of International Studies at FLAME University, Pune, with a doctorate in European Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She served as International Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland in 2018. She is Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD) in Kerala and Joint Secretary of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) in New Delhi, India.
