India's Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect

by Sumit Ganguly (Editor)

This book provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of India's foreign policy from 1947 to the present day. It is organized primarily in the form of India's relations with its neighbours and with key states in the global order. All the chapters in this volume utilize the level of
analysis approach, a well-established conceptual scheme from the study of international politics, in organizing the substantive cases. They provide crisp and lucid accounts of its developments in various parts of the world. The book is significant because there are no other viable edited volumes on
the evolution of Indian foreign policy.

Each chapter follows a common conceptual framework using the level of analysis approach. This framework looks at the evolution of India's foreign policy from the standpoints of systemic, national, and decision-making perspectives. In the introductory chapter, the editor carefully spells out the
intellectual antecedents of the level of analysis framework in straightforward, lucid and discursive prose and applies to the substantive chapters in the volume.

Genres: India, Politics, International Relations

350 pages, Hardcover

First published January 15, 2010

Reviews

[Ambuj Sahu · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is a great compilation of Evolution of India's Foreign Policy endeavors. The 'levels-of-analysis' approach of examining all aspects of bilateral relations combined with the role of world history makes this book standing out from other popular Foreign Policy books in the market. While I was reading it, I never felt that the book is authored by fifteen different individuals and then compiled. However, it missed the sections of Bhutan, Nepal and Afghanistan.
Published in 2010, the book will continue to lose relevance due to changing paradigm in the foreign policy. This does not stop it to be a great book to start if you have an adequate knowledge of world history.

[Vaibhav Chaudhari · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is very nice but I want to read first.

[Thanmaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

POV: Jaishankar is the Foreign Minister, and in an era of nationalism and chest-thumping, you're forced to pick up a book to understand whether Nehru did nothing and Modi did everything.

[Shalabh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful.