The Decade of Power Politics: India’s Strategy and Leads

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction: India’s Strategic Engagement with Contemporary Global Politics. 1. Rising China as a Superpower State: A Global Challenge to US Hegemony/Rashmi Singh. 2. The Periphery at Stake: India’s Fight against China’s Expansionist Policy/Priya Kumari. 3. The Geopolitics in Afghanistan: Echoing the Tensions in South Asia/Nawid Fazly. 4. Strategic Partners: Mapping Out the Key Issues and Challenges between India and Israel/Shazad. 5. The Tryst between India and Small Islands Nations: A Nautical Dimension of India’s Indo-Pacific Policy/Megha Shrivastava. 6. India’s Soft Power in Consolidating QUAD/Alakh Ranjan. 7. Geopolitical Competition in the Arctic Circle/Payal Bansal. 8. Buddhist Diplomacy: 196 Soft Power Politics of India and China/Vishal Rajput and Sarthak Duneja. 9. India’s Foreign Policy Towards Multilateral Institutions/Vishal Rajput. The book attempts to map out the trajectory of contemporary geopolitics, the rapid transformations and transitions that constantly shape the global order and how India stands out to respond to this ever-changing environment through its diplomatic strategies and leads. Unlike the conventional ideal of non-alignment principle, India has become more resilient and strategic actor that aspires to not only balance but define, lead and shape the contemporary global politics. With the contribution of some young scholars, illuminating minds and experts from India, this eclectic collection discusses overarching geopolitical issues India has been grappling with in contemporary global politics and the spectrum of strategic ways Indian state articulates and responds to such rapid changes in the international order. The edited book will be of interest to undergraduate, post graduate scholars and researchers of international relations in general and area studies in particular.…