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Summary: India's role in global politics draws increasing attention from the international community. Unprecedented economic growth in the recent past, rising fundamentalism in national politics and the knife-edge of nuclear-fuelled tension with an unstable Islamic government in Pakistan are all bound up in Indian claims to geopolitical ascendance. At the same time, Central Asia has re-emerged as a site of international contestation or a 'new Great Game', with Russia, China and the US vying over security and energy interests in a politically unstable region. In this fresh and penetrating analysis of India's foreign policy, particularly on Central Asia, Emilian Kavalski illuminates India's international ambitions and capabilities, and its complex dynamics with great powers USA, China and Russia. India and Central Asia provides a timely and much-needed assessment of the foreign policy of a rising power.'In this theoretically sophisticated and path-breaking book Emilian Kavalski lays bare the cognitive foundations of Indian elite thinking about India's foreign policy, role in the world and policies beyond the Subcontinent and raises probing questions concerning the true extent of India's power and the meaning of its rise. Anyone interested in Indian foreign policy and/or Central Asia should read this book and ponder its implications.'- Stephen J. Blank, National Security Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College, author of 'Natural Allies: Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation' (2005). |
