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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Security is an important component of the way international relations are played out. After independence in 1947, India followed a policy of non-alignment to protect and promote the interests of the newly born nation. India's security concerns at that time revolved around the threats emanating primarily from Pakistan, although China was also perceived as a threat to India's national security. However, the age of neo-liberal globalization has added additional dimensions to the conventional threats. In the post-Cold War period, the major security concern of India emanates from cross-border terrorism. The challenges posed by international terrorism, the global economic meltdown, and environmental degradation including climate change are also security concerns that India has to address seriously. The crisis in the energy sector is another major security challenge. On the domestic front, India faces many challenges including poverty, illiteracy, social and economic inequalities, communalism, regional imbalances, development-based displacement, etc. This book contains 21 research papers authored by experts in various fields that examine the various dimensions of India's security concerns and suggest appropriate policy formulations in this regard. The need for an out-of-the-box approach for ensuring security in its holistic dimension is emphasized.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents I Indias foreign policy general 1 Understanding Indias foreign policy non alignment and the way ahead KS Pavithran 2 Technology transfer and Indias foreign policy S Shaji 3 Managing Indian economic diplomacy in the era of globalization M Basheer Ahmed Khan 4 Indias energy security challenges and opportunities A Subramanyam Raju 5 India and the present global order a security perspective Suresh R 7 Indian foreign policy through case studies Jigar Patel and Hardik Mehta II India and China 7 Challenges across the Himalayas need for a firm pragmatic foreign policy towards China Sudhir Jacob George 8 Maritime dimensions of India China relations RS Vasan 9 Indias policy towards rising China G Supriya and Mohanan B Pillai 10 Indias look east policy an empirical study Amal Sarkar III India Pakistan and West Asia 11 Changing threat perception from West Asia Indias options AK Pasha 12 Indo Pak relations new trends Sudhir Singh 13 Three frontiers theory and Indias troubled relations with Pakistan and China L Premashekhara IV India and South Asia 14 Indias threat matrix and South Asia MD Nalapat 15 Struggle for democracy in Myanmar Indias response V Suryanarayan 16 Nation building and foreign policy behaviour of India in the regional setting of South Asia PM Joshy and Mohanan B Pillai 17 Conflicts and co operation on trans boundary waters in South Asia Deepa Karthykeyan 18 Regional integration in South Asia reflections on ECEU paradigm Jayaraj Amin V India and Sri Lanka 19 Emerging trends in Sri Lanka an Indian perspective R Swaminathan 20 Is Tamil Nadu the Villain in India Sri Lanka relations V Suryanarayan 21 Maritime dimensions of Indo Sri Lanka relations RS Vasan 22 Post war challenges in Sri Lanka policy options for India SY Surendra Kumar 23 Human rights situation in Sri Lanka and Indian response narratives of refugees survivors Ramu Manivannan 24 India Sri Lanka relations impact of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka Jacob Ashik Bonofer VI India US and Europe 25 Contemporary development in US Pakistan relations impact on Indian Foreign Policy MJ Vinod 26 India EU strategic partnership perspectives for the 21 century B Krishnamurthy 27 Indias 123 Nuclear Agreement with the USD Purushothaman VII India and Africa 28 Competition for Africa challenges and opportunities for Indian Foreign Policy Vijay Prakasam GV Index Professing and practicing non alignment has been the hallmark of Indias foreign policy since independence in 1947 The initiative for Non Aligned Movement NAM the biggest independent and informal association of countries on a sui generis basis came from three nations viz India Yugoslavia and Egypt represented by the three statesmen Jawaharlal Nehru Joseph Tito and Gamal Abdel Nasser respectively From its modest beginnings at the Belgrade Conference in 1961 with a participation of 25 nations the NAM has expanded to include 119 members at the Sharm El Sheikh Egypt Conference in July 2009The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union ushered a new era in Indian economy and polity and consequently in Indias foreign policy India unveiled the look east policy in 1991 East Asia including Japan China South Korea and ASEAN is today Indias largest trading partner ahead of EU and the US Indias foreign policy posture in recent years particularly towards the region of West Asia and North Africa WANA has been a subject of intense debate Indias growing relationship with the US and Israel and its lukewarm stand on Iraqi crisis and Iranian nuclear issue is seen as a fundamental shift in the Indian foreign policy exercise Critics have accused the succeeding Indian governments during the past two decades of abandoning its independent foreign policy of deviating from Nehruvian national consensus in Foreign policy matters and towing the Pro American line Others have argued that the radical shift in the orientation of Indian foreign policy in terms of its pro American tilt bears the mark of realism and pragmatism that is dict.