Previously issued in print: 2015.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nehru's Foreign Policy: Realism and Idealism Conjoined / Andrew Kennedy -- India and the World / Srinath Raghavan -- At the Cusp of Transformation: The Rajiv Gandhi Years, 1984-1989 / Srinath Raghavan -- India's Contemporary Plurilateralism / Samir Saran -- The Parliament / Rudra Chaudhuri -- India and Global Governance / Poorvi Chitalkar -- India and the Region / Stephen P. Cohen -- Multilateral Diplomacy on Climate Change / Navroz K. Dubash -- Indira Gandhi's Foreign Policy: Hard Realism? / Surjit Mansingh -- Bangladesh / Sreeradha Datta -- Before Midnight: Views on Foreign Relations, 1857-1947 / Rahul Sagar -- The Indian Ocean as India's Ocean / David Scott -- India's Bifurcated Look to 'Central Eurasia': The Central Asian Republics and Afghanistan / Emilian Kavalski -- Unbreakable Bond: Africa in India's Foreign Policy / Constantino Xavier -- India and the International Financial Institutions / Jason A. Kirk -- India's Rise: The Search for Wealth and Power in the Twenty-First Century / Sunil Khilnani -- Officialdom: South Block and Beyond / Tanvi Madan -- Israel: A Maturing Relationship / P.R. Kumaraswamy -- Rising or Constrained Power? / Eswaran Sridharan -- Multilateralism in India's Nuclear Policy: A Questionable Default Option / Rajesh Rajagopalan -- Brazil: Fellow Traveler on the Long and Winding Road to <i>Grandeza</i> / Varun Sahni -- The Media in the Making of Indian Foreign Policy / Manoj Joshi -- India's Soft Power / Rani D. Mullen -- The Economic Imperatives Shaping India's Foreign Policy / Sanjaya Baru -- Five Approaches to the Study of Indian Foreign Policy / Kanti Bajpai -- Think-Tanks and Universities / Amitabh Mattoo -- The Gulf Region / Talmiz Ahmad -- China / Alka Acharya -- India in the International Trading System / Pradeep S. Mehta -- India and Russia: The Anatomy and Evolution of a Relationship / Rajan Menon -- India's International Development Program / Rohan Mukherjee -- Establishing the Ministry of External Affairs / Pallavi Raghavan -- India's Nepal Policy / S. D. Muni -- State and Politics / Vipin Narang -- India and the United Nations—Or, Things Fall Apart / Manu Bhagavan -- The Private Sector / Rajiv Kumar -- India's 'Look East' Policy / Amitava Acharya -- India's National Security / Sumit Ganguly -- Resources / Ligia Norohna -- Indian Scientists in Defence and Foreign Policy / Jaideep A. Prabhu -- India's Policy towards Pakistan / Rajesh Basrur -- Foreign Policy after 1990: Transformation through Incremental Adaptation / C. Raja Mohan -- India and South Africa / Kudrat Virk -- Public Opinion / Devesh Kapur -- The Foreign Policy of the Raj and Its Legacy / Sneh Mahajan -- US-India Relations: The Struggle for an Enduring Partnership / Ashley J. Tellis -- Mother India and Her Children Abroad: The Role of the Diaspora in India's Foreign Policy / Latha Varadarajan -- India-Sri Lanka Equation: Geography as Opportunity / V. Suryanarayan -- Theorizing India's Foreign Relations / Siddharth Mallavarapu -- Western Europe / Christian Wagner.

Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other growing economies, and is the only Asian country with the heft to counterbalance China. Indeed, so much is India defined internationally by its economic performance (and challenges) that other dimensions of its internal situation, notably relevant to security, and of its foreign policy have been relatively neglected in the existing literature.

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