Indian foreign policy : the politics of postcolonial identity from 1947 to 2004
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Indian foreign policy : the politics of postcolonial identity from 1947 to 2004
(Interventions)
Routledge, 2012
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  Iwate
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  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-229) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India's foreign and security policies as representational practices which produce India's identity as a postcolonial nation-state helps to illuminate the conditions of possibility in which foreign policy is made.
Spanning the period between 1947 and 2004, the book focuses on key moments of crisis, such as the India-China war in 1962 and the nuclear tests of 1972 and 1998, and the approach to international affairs of significant leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru. The analysis sheds new light on these key events and figures and develops a strong analytical narrative around India's foreign policy behaviour, based on an understanding of its postcolonial identity.
It is argued that a prominent facet of India's identity is a perception that it is a civilizational-state which brings to international affairs a tradition of morality and ethical conduct derived from its civilizational heritage and the experience of its anti-colonial struggle. This notion of 'civilizational exceptionalism', as well as other narratives of India's civilizational past, such as its vulnerability to invasion and conquest, have shaped the foreign policies of governments of various political hues and continue to influence a rising India.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: India as a 'Moral Power' 1947-1964 2. Nuclear Technology, Disarmament and the Ambivalence of Postcolonial Identity 3. Rejecting the 'Fear Complex': Constructing an International Politics of Friendship 4. Friendship to 'Betrayal': The India-China War Part 2: Grappling with Postcoloniality: 1964-2004 5.Interventions and Explosions: Wither an Ethical Modernity? 6. India in South Asia: Danger, Desire, Friendship and Fraternity 7. Foreign Policy, Identity and the BJP: Correcting the 'emasculation of state power'? 8. Conclusion
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