The Oxford handbook of Indian foreign policy / edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Part I. Introduction -- 1. India and the world / David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan -- 2. Five approaches to the study of Indian foreign policy / Kanti Bajpai -- 3. Theorizing India's foreign relations / Siddharth Mallavarpu -- Part II. Evolution of Indian foreign policy -- 4. The foreign policy of the Raj and its legacy / Sneh Mahajan -- 5. Before midnight : views on international relations, 1857-1947 / Rahul Sagar -- 6. Establishing the ministry of external affairs / Pallavi Raghavan -- 7. Nehru's foreign policy : realism and idealism conjoined / Andrew B. Kennedy -- 8. Indira Gandhi's foreign policy : hard realism? / Surjit Mansingh -- 9. At the cusp of transformation : the Rajiv Gandhi years, 1984-1989 / Srinath Raghavan -- 10. Foreign policy after 1990 : transformation through incremental adaptation / C. Raja Mohan -- 11. India's national security / Sumit Ganguly -- 12. Resources / Ligia Noronha -- 13. India's international development program / Rohan Mukherjee -- 14. India's soft power / Rani D. Mullen -- Part III. Institutions and actors -- 15. State and politics / Paul Staniland and Vipin Narang -- 16. The parliament / Rudra Chaudhuri -- 17. Officialdom : south block and beyond / Tanvi Madan -- 18. The private sector / Rajiv Kumar -- 19. The media in the making of Indian foreign policy / Manoj Joshi -- 20. Think-tanks and universities / Amitabh Mattoo and Rory Medcalf -- 21. Mother India and her children abroad : the role of the diaspora in India's foreign policy / Latha Varadarajan -- 22. Public opinion / Devesh Kapur -- 23. Indian scientists in defence and foreign policy / Jaideep A. Prabhu -- 24. The economic imperatives shaping Indian foreign policy / Sanjaya Baru -- Part IV. Geography -- 25. India and the region / Stephen P. Cohen -- 26. China / Alka Acharya -- 27. India's policy towards Pakistan / Rajesh Basrur -- 28. Bagladesh / Sreeradha Datta and Krishnan Srinivasan -- 29. India's Nepal policy / S.D. Muni -- 30. India-Sri Lanka equation : geography as opportunity / V. Suryanarayan -- 31. India's bifurcated look to 'central Eurasia' : the central Asian republics and Afghanistan / Emilian Kavalski -- 32. The Gulf region / Talmiz Ahmad -- 33. India's 'look east' policy / Amitav Acharya -- 34. The Indian ocean as India's ocean / David Scott -- Part V. Key partnerships -- 35. US-India relations : the struggle for an enduring partnership / Ashley J. Tellis -- 36. Western Europe / Christian Wagner -- 37. India and Russia : the anatomy and evolution of a relationship / Rajan Menon -- 38. Brazil : fellow traveler on the long and winding road to Grandeza / Varun Sahni -- 39. Israel : a maturing relationship / P.R. Kumaraswamy -- 40. India and South Africa / Kudrat Virk -- 41. Unbreakable bond : Africa in India's foreign policy / Constantino Xavier -- Part VI. Multilateral diplomacy -- 42. India and global governance / Poorvi Chitalkar and David M. Malone -- 43. India and the United Nations : or things fall apart / Manu Bhagavan -- 44. India and the international financial institutions / Jason A. Kirk -- 45. India's contemporary plurilateralism / Samir Saran -- 46. India in the international trading system / Pradeep S. Mehta and Bipul Chatterjee -- 47. Multilateralism in India's nuclear policy : a questionable default option / Rajesh Rajagopalan -- 48. Multilaterial diplomacy on climate change / Navroz K. Dubash and Lavanya Rajamani -- Part VII. Looking ahead -- 49. India's rise : the search for wealth and power in the twenty-first century / Sunil Khilnani -- 50. Rising or constrained power? / E. Sridharan -- Index.

"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. This handbook presents an innovative, high profile volume, providing an authoritative and accessible examination and critique of Indian foreign policy. The handbook brings together essays from a global team of leading experts in the field to provide a comprehensive study of the various dimensions of Indian foreign policy."--