India in the United Nations: Interplay of Interests and Principles

India in the United Nations: Interplay of Interests and Principles presents a holistic and systematic understanding of India’s long and rich association with the United Nations (UN) ever since it was established nearly 75 years ago. It examines notable patterns and phases of India’s role in the UN and focuses on key areas of contemporary relevance where India’s diplomatic efforts were at play. These include the India–Pakistan conflicts as well as other regional conflicts in the context of new threats to security, peacekeeping operations, countering international terrorism, protection of human rights, development diplomacy, internet governance and the question of enlargement of the Security Council.

This book offers glimpses of India’s persistence in framing its priorities and strategies for securing moral, legal and political endorsement in line with the established principles of the UN. The insights from these cumulative experiences of the present and previous governments are pertinent to crafting India’s future global role.

C. S. R. Murthy is Professor at School of International Studies, JNU, Delhi. He has a total teaching experience of 35 years. He was Chairperson of the Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament for three terms, besides serving as Director of Human Rights Studies Programme during 2013–15 at JNU. He was Book Review Editor (2000–2003) and then the Chief Editor for International Studies (2004–2007). Professor Murthy was visiting fellow/professor at Keele (UK), Columbia (USA) Universities, Sciences Pro (France) and Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Germany). He has authored India’s Diplomacy in the United Nations: Problems and Perspectives (1993) and edited three volumes on Nonaligned and the United Nations (1987), India in Tomorrow’s United Nations (1995) and Five Decades of Cooperation between India and UNESCO (1997). He has contributed nearly 60 chapters in edited books and research articles in journals such as Conflict, Security and Development; Comparative Contemporary Review of the Middle East; Global Society; India Quarterly; International Studies; South Asian Survey and so on. Further, Professor Murthy served as co-convenor for two annual all-India international and area studies conventions held in Delhi during 2013–2019.