{"product_id":"indias-foreign-policy-1947-2003","title":"India's Foreign Policy 1947-2003","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: J N Dixit\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picus Books\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 527\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8187285214\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, J N Dixit, India’s former foreign Secretary, paints a broad canvas, stretching across a time span of more than 50 years, with bold, powerful and authoritative strokes. The vivid colours, the intricate patterns and, above all, the overall comprehensive picture of India’s foreign policy reflect the deft touch of a maser artist who has created a modern-day masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning with a historical perspective, the author traces the origins of India’s foreign policy from 1947 onwards. He describes how the foundations were laid by Jawaharlal Nehru and built up later, by his successors, into the edifice that has now attained a lofty stature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the course of this illuminating narrative the author projects, in a chronological order, the various facets of India’s foreign policy as they evolved. He also describes their impact on both the national and international fronts. This volume puts into perspective significant epoch-making events which profoundly affected the orientation of India’s foreign policy priorities and also incisively analyses their ramifications and repercussions. For instance:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indo-Pak conflicts of 1947-48, 1965 and 1971.\u003cbr\u003eThe UN’s dubious stance vis-à-vis Kashmir.\u003cbr\u003eThe Indo-China war of 1962.\u003cbr\u003eThe Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979.\u003cbr\u003eThe disintegration of the gigantic Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003eThe Kashmir imbroglio and Pakistan’s proxy war strategies.\u003cbr\u003eThe 1991 Gulf War.\u003cbr\u003eThe nuclear tests carried out by India and Pakistan in May 1998.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eApart from critically evaluating India’s relations with various countries of the world, especially the USA, Soviet Union (then Russia), China and Pakistan at various points of time, the book also examines international relations with reference to specific events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition throws new light on the recent developments impinging significantly on India’s foreign policy strategies such as the Kargil war, the Vajpayee-Musharraf Agra summit and the occupation of Iraq by the US and the UK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents, for the first time, an exhaustive, in-depth and analytical account of India’s foreign policy from its inception to date by a former Foreign Secretary, who had a ringside view of momentous events, as they unfolded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrows new light on how the USA offered nuclear weapons technology to India in the aftermath of the 1962 Indo-China conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDivulges how Moscow tried to entice India to attack Pakistan when the Soviet Union had occupied Afghanistan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeeks to probe and ascertain, from a different angle, why Kashmir continues to be a festering problem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscloses how the highly industrialized countries, led by the USA, seek to impose discriminatory technological and economic regimes on the rest of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHighlights the reasons for Pakistan’s Pavlovian responses to India’s nuclear tests of May 1998.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocuses on the lessons for India’s foreign policy makers in the aftermath of the Kargil war, the Agra summit and the occupation of Iraq by the US-UK armed forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is the product of the author’s wide and varied experience and his meticulous regard for detail and authenticity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia’s Foreign Policy: Conceptual and Philosophical Origins\u003cbr\u003eIndia Joins the Comity of Nations\u003cbr\u003eIndia’s Emergence on the stage of International Diplomacy (1946-55)\u003cbr\u003eEnd of Illusions; Beginnings of Realism (1956-64)\u003cbr\u003eThe Indo-Centric Phase: 1964-77\u003cbr\u003eA Period of Domestic Uncertainty and Reactive Diplomacy: 1977-84\u003cbr\u003eAdjusting to a World under Transition: 1985-91\u003cbr\u003eOn the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century: 1990-97\u003cbr\u003eKashmir: The Unresolved Problem\u003cbr\u003eIndia and the United Nations\u003cbr\u003eNuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament\u003cbr\u003eEconomic Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003eThe Decision-Making Process: Political and Functional Aspects\u003cbr\u003eIndia’s Foreign Policy: A Retrospective Evaluation\u003cbr\u003eTasks Ahead: Challenges for India’s Foreign Policy\u003cbr\u003eChina and South Asia: Post Pokhran II\u003cbr\u003eIndia as a Nuclear Weapons Power\u003cbr\u003eKargil, Agra and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"J N Dixit \/ Picus Books \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153620332912,"sku":"12663","price":48.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/12663.jpg?v=1793911721","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/indias-foreign-policy-1947-2003","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}