Postscripts on independence : foreign policy ideas, identity, and institutions in India and South Africa / Vineet Thakur.
By: Thakur, Vineet [author.]
Series: Critical global thought: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199094066 (ebook) :Subject(s): India -- Foreign relations | South Africa -- Foreign relations | India -- Foreign relations -- 1947-1984 | India -- Foreign relations -- 1984- | South Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1994-Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199479641DDC classification: 327.54 LOC classification: DS448Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. Postscripts on Independence analyses and compares the making of foreign policy ideas, identities, and institutions of postcolonial India and South Africa. It shows how both countries have responded to the contradictory demands of their freedom struggles against colonialism and pragmatic challenges of international politics. Vineet Thakur argues that the countries' geopolitical positioning in South Asia and southern Africa make them regional powers, with similar sets of problems and prospects, as both continue to grapple with the idea of maintaining regional and/or continental hegemony.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. Postscripts on Independence analyses and compares the making of foreign policy ideas, identities, and institutions of postcolonial India and South Africa. It shows how both countries have responded to the contradictory demands of their freedom struggles against colonialism and pragmatic challenges of international politics. Vineet Thakur argues that the countries' geopolitical positioning in South Asia and southern Africa make them regional powers, with similar sets of problems and prospects, as both continue to grapple with the idea of maintaining regional and/or continental hegemony.
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