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A Recent History of India's Diplomacy |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Rene Wadlow |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,111 Words, 7,257 Characters |
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DIPLOMACY OF INDIA: THEN AND NOW
By Harish Kapur
New Delhi: Manas Publications, 2002
399 pages, no price indicated
Harish Kapur, emeritus professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, has written a first-rate study of the making of Indian foreign policy, following up on his earlier India's Foreign Policy 1947-1992: Shadows and Substance.
Kapur looks in particular at the environments that India inherited at birth--domestic, regional, and global--for as he notes, all states "have to adapt their foreign policy to the changing realities of the planet--realities which often escape them, and over which they hardly have any control." What control they do have, however, is the result of the decisions made by individuals in positions of power, individuals i...
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...ssibilities for it to grow rapidly, to obtain the necessary transfer of resources, and to become more export-oriented?"
In this book, Harish Kapur provides the methodological tools for analysis of Indian diplomacy and the interplay of domestic and external influences. This is an important guide for understanding South Asian diplomatic politics.
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