Table of Contents

Section I: Introduction
1: David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan: India and the World
2: Kanti Bajpai: Five Approaches to the Study of Indian Foreign Policy
3: Siddhartha Mallavarapu: Theorising India's Foreign Relations
Section II: Evolution of Indian Foreign Policy
4: Sneh Mahajan: Foreign Policy of the Raj and its Legacy
5: Rahul Sagar: Ideas about Foreign Policy Before Independence
6: Pallavi Raghavan: Establishing the Ministry of External Affairs
7: Andrew Kennedy: Nehru's Foreign Policy: Idealism and Realism Conjoined?
8: Surjit Mansingh: Indira Gandhi's Foreign Policy: Hard Realism?
9: Srinath Raghavan: At the Cusp of Transformation: The Rajiv Gandhi Years, 1984-89
10: C. Raja Mohan: Foreign Policy After 1990: Transformation Through Incremental Adaptation
11: Sumit Ganguly: India's National Security
12: Ligia Norohna: Resources
13: Rohan Mukherjee: India's International Development Program
14: Rani Mullen: India's Soft Power
Section III: Institutions and Actors
15: Paul Staniland and Vipin Narang: State and Politics
16: Rudra Chaudhuri: The Parliament
17: Tanvi Madan: Officialdom
18: Rajiv Kumar: The Private Sector
19: Manoj Joshi: The Media in the Making of Foreign Policy
20: Amitabh Mattoo and Rory Medcalf: Think-Tanks, Universities
21: Latha Varadarajan: Mother India and Her Children Abroad: The Role of the Diaspora in India's Foreign Policy
22: Devesh Kapur: Public Opinion
23: Jaideep A. Prabhu: Indian Scientists in Defence and Foreign Policy
24: The Economic Imperatives Shaping India's Foreign Policy
Section IV: Geography
25: Stephen Cohen: India and the Region
26: Alka Acharya: China
27: Rajesh Basrur: India's Policy Towards Pakistan
28: Krishnan Srinivasan and Sreeradha Dutta: Bangladesh
29: S.D. Muni: India's Nepal Policy
30: V. Suryanarayan: India-Sri Lanka Equation: Geography as Opportunity
31: Emilian Kavalski: India's Bifurcated Look in Central Eurasia: The Central Asian Republics
32: Talmiz Ahmad: The Persian Gulf
33: Amitava Acharya: India's 'Look East' Policy
34: David Scott: The Indian Ocean as India's Ocean: Geopolitics and Geoeconomic Drivers for the 21st Century
Section V: Key Partnerships
35: Ashley Tellis: US-India Relations: The Struggle for an Enduring Partnership
36: Christian Wagner: Western Europe
37: Rajan Menon: The Russian Federation: The Anatomy and Evolution of a Relationship
38: Varun Sahni: Brazil: Fellow Traveller on the Long and Winding Road to Grandeza
39: P.R. Kumaraswamy: Israel: A Maturing Relationship
40: Kudrat Virk: India and South Africa
41: Constantino Xavier: Unbreakable Bond: Africa in India's Foreign Policy
Section VI: Multilateral Diplomacy
42: Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone: India and Global Governance
43: Manu Bhagavan: India and the United Nations- or Things Fall Apart
44: Jason Kirk: India and the International Financial Institutions
45: Samir Saran: India's Contemporary Pluritalerism
46: Pradeep S. Mehta and Bipul Chatterjee: India in the International Trading System
47: Rajesh Rajagopalan: Multilateralism in India's Nuclear Policy: A Questionable Default Option
48: Navroz Dubash and Lavanya Rajamani: Multilateral Diplomacy on Climate Change
Section VII: Looking Ahead
49: Sunil Khilnani: India's Rise: The Search for Wealth and Power in the 21st Century
50: Eswaran Sridharan: Rising or Constrained Power? Why India Will Find It Difficult To Convert Economic Growth and Nuclear Capability into Power

About the Author

David M. Malone joined the United Nations University on 1 March 2013 as its sixth Rector. In that role, he holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Prior to joining the United Nations University Dr. David Malone served (2008-2013) as President of Canada's International Development Research Centre, a funding agency that supports policy-relevant research in the developing world.
C. Raja Mohan is Head of Strategic Studies and Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. Earlier he was a Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Mohan served as the Diplomatic Editor and the Washington Correspondent of The Hindu and the Strategic Affairs Editor of The Indian Express. He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board.
Srinath Raghavan is Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Senior Research Fellow at the Kings India Institute. Dr. Raghavan's research interests are in contemporary history of India, international politics of South Asia, Indian military history, and India's foreign and defence policies since 1947.

Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy is an essential read for students at all levels and scholars who want to familiarise themselves with Indias strategic culture, the role of interest groups and other domestic factors on India's foreign policy, Indian Ocean, AfPak and emerging Asia. Scholars are encouraged to have this as a core textbook on Indias foreign policy and libraries must have copies of the book.
*Dr Raj Verma, Sonda News*

Has enormous value in providing context to why India behaves the way it does in its vicinity, and in the wider world. It provides insights into the objectives, at various stages, of elements of foreign policy. It tells us about the decision making processes within the country. It tells us of the shifting priorities of the state as well as the changing nature of diplomacy, and the specialized knowledge it now requires. It tells us about the contribution of some of Indias top leaders to thinking about Indias global engagement...And, in a fundamental way, the Handbook tells us the story of India and its journey from being on the margins of the global power structure yet with ambitions of shaping it to arriving at a stage where it can exercise influence.
*Prashant Jha, Hindustan Times*

This handbook of Indian foreign policy is a serious and substantial contribution to the debate on Indias foreign policy approach and engagements in an era that is witnessing significant changes.
*Talmiz Ahmad, Frontline*

Indian foreign policy has been a relatively under-researched subject, due, in some measure, to the lack of authentic source material. However, there is a growing interest in the subject and the OUP Handbook does a creditable job of providing a comprehensive survey, spread over 50 chapters, of examining the origins and development of independent Indias engagement with the world ... the three editors have done a commendable job of providing a framework to what could easily have become an unwieldy collection.
*Rakesh Sood, The Indian Express*

The book nicely interweaves how national, regional, and global factors; roles of formal and informal actors; and objective (real-structural) and subjective (identity-related) factors shape Indias foreign policy affairs. The book is cohesive, clear, and concise; conveys the essence of its topic; and concludes with a discussion of strategies to support Indias growth as a rising or constrained power in global affairs.
*CHOICE*

an excellent survey ... essential reading for those who want to understand Indiaâs foreign policy
*Raj Verma, Royal Society for Asian Affairs*