Title: Pax Indica : India and the World of the 21st Century Author: Shashi Tharoor ISBN: 067008574X / 9780670085743 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 450 Publisher: Penguin Year: 2012 Availability: In Stock
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“Indian diplomacy,” a veteran told Shashi Tharoor many years ago, “is like the love-making of an elephant: it is conducted at a very high level, accompanied by much bellowing, and the results are not known for two years.” In this lively, informative and insightful work, the award-winning author and parliamentarian brilliantly demonstrates how Indian diplomacy has become sprightlier since then and where it needs to focus in the world of the 21st century. Explaining why foreign policy matters to an India focused on its own domestic transformation, Tharoor surveys India’s major international relationships in detail, evokes the country’s soft power and its global responsibilities, analyses the workings of the Ministry of External Affairs, parliament and public opinion on the shaping of policy, and offers his thoughts on a contemporary new “grand strategy” for the nation, arguing that India must move beyond non-alignment to “multi-alignment”. His book offers a clear-eyed vision of an India now ready to assume new global responsibility in the contemporary world. Pax Indica is another substantial achievement from one of the finest Indian authors of our times.
Chapter 1 : Revisiting the Tryst with Destiny
Chapter 2 : Brother Enemy
Chapter 3 : A Tough Neighbourhood
Chapter 4 : China and India : Competition, Cooperation or Conflict?
Chapter 5 : India`s Near Abroad: The Arab World and the Rest of India
Chapter 6 : Red, White, Blue and Saffron: The United States and India
Chapter 7 : Familiar Lands and Uncharted Territories: Europe, Africa and Latin America
Chapter 8 : The Hard Challenge of Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
Chapter 9 : Eternal Affairs: The Domestic Underpinnings of Foreign Policy
Chapter 10 : India, the UN adn the Global Commons: The Multilateral Imperative
Chapter 11 : Multi-Alignment: Towards a Grand Strategy for India in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgements
Selected Bibiliography
Index