India and the Changing World Order

This book brings together new perspectives on India’s foreign policy in the light of a constantly shifting world order. From India’s relations in its immediate neighborhood to its China policy, from India-US relations under Biden to Quad, from Grand Strategy to peacekeeping, this book brings to the fore the shifting terrains of global politics and India’s significant place in it.

The chapters in the volume:

• Critically examine changing preoccupations of India’s foreign policy and its geopolitical interests, including its Act East Policy;
• Include comprehensive inputs on India’s China policy and relations with Japan;
• Explore India’s relations with the USA, the Middle-East, Afghanistan, and Central Asia;
• Discuss at length India’s nuclear, energy, and foreign investment policies;
• Analyze India’s positioning on the emergence of the Indo-Pacific discourse.

This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science and international relations. It will also be of use to foreign policy and diplomacy practitioners, career bureaucrats and government think tanks.

Shveta Dhaliwal is tenured faculty in the Department of Political Science, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, India. Currently she is serving as Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Thapar University, Punjab, India. She is also Visiting Faculty, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic and has been appointed as Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law and Justice, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. She is International Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Law (ICIRL), Laurentian University, Canada. She has recently received a US Department of State Fellowship to study foreign relations institutions.