Title: Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity, and Institutions in India and South Africa
Publisher: OUP India
Publication Date: 2018
Language: English
ISBN 10: 019947964X
ISBN 13: 9780199479641
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New
Weight: 580 grams

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India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. Postscripts on Independence analyses and compares the making of foreign policy ideas, identities, and institutions of postcolonial India and South Africa. It shows how both countries have responded to the contradictory demands of their freedom struggles against colonialism and pragmatic challenges of international politics. Vineet Thakur argues that the countries' geopolitical positioning in South Asia and southern Africa make them regional powers, with similar sets of problems and prospects, as both continue to grapple with the idea of maintaining regional and/or continental hegemony. By undertaking a comparative analysis, he explores a framework to understand the foreign policymaking fears, aspirations, and international behaviour of these two states.

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Vineet Thakur, University Lecturer, University of Leiden,Siddharth Mallavarapu, Associate Professor, Centre for International Politics, Organisation & Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University,Himadeep Muppidi, Betty G.C Cartwright Professor of Political Sciencw, Department of Political Science, Vassar College, New York, USA,Raymond Duvall, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, USA

Vineet Thakur teaches International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

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