The Elephant's Rise in the East: Navigating India's Foreign Policy in an Emerging Multipolar Asia

Contents: Preface. 1. The theoretical foundations of India’s rise in Asia/ Don McLain Gill and K Vinay Kumar. 2. The Lure and Pitfalls of India’s Multi-alignment strategy in a multipolar world/Monish Tourangbam. 3. Five pivotal stages in the evolving India-Southeast Asian strategic relationship/Don McLain Gill. 4. Growing power struggle in the Indo-Pacific and India-South Korea Strategic Cooperation/Lakhvinder Singh. 5. India-Taiwan relations: Under the shadow of China/Manoj Kumar Panigrahi. 6. Contemporary developments in the India-Japan Strategic Partnership: Evolving towards the future/Jay Maniyar. 7. Russia and Central Asia: A Quest for new synergies/Divyanshu Jindal. 8. India’s evolving South Asian Policy amid China’s increasing footprints/Tanveer Ahmad Khan. 9. Examining the Stability of the South Asian Regional Security Complex in the context of Sino-India relations post-Galwan/Upamanyu Basu. 10. India’s relations with the Gulf states: From balancing to proactive and diversified convergence/Niranjan Marjani. 11. The geopolitical dynamics of India’s West Asian Policy/Fidel Rahmati. 12. As India Rises/ Don McLain Gill and K Vinay Kumar.…