Takes a prospective look at India's neighbourhood as it may evolve by 2030. The book underlines the challenges that confront Indian policymakers, the opportunities that are likely to emerge, and the manner in which they should frame foreign and security policies for India to maximise the gains and minimise the losses.

In the last seven decades since independence, successive prime ministers have ushered in changes in India’s foreign policy in response to shifting global geopolitical dynamics, aggregating transformation in bilateral relations. This overview places the past against the changes being brought in by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a more forceful foreign policy practitioner than his predecessors. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif met in Ufa, Russia on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit last month. They issued a joint statement in which they “condemned terrorism in all its forms and agreed to cooperate with each other to eliminate the menace of terrorism from South Asia. Prime Minister Modi could not have been more different in style and projection from the diffident Singh. In assessing Modi’s foreign policy it is important to appreciate that the pace of change in global affairs has picked up speed. Past ideological rivalries have been substituted by challenges to democracies like India and the US from one-party states, such as China; so-called “illiberal democracies”, such as Russia; and the rise of right wing parties in Europe. In this book is Bhutan made the transition from monarchy to constitutional democracy, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Myanmar moved from praetorian to civilian regimes. Monarchy came to an end in Nepal and Maldives became a presidential republic even as Afghanistan, India, and Sri Lanka witnessed their democracies at crossroads. It is hoped that the book will be able to provide rich material for serious students of Indian foreign policy planners administrators and politicians alike.

This book is a compilation of papers presented at a day-long conference organised in Chennai, on March 28 2019 by the Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) in partnership with the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) and the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies, University of Madras, and supported by the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard on the theme, “Securing India's Maritime Neighbourhood: Challenges and Opportunities”. Contributors included a whole galaxy of luminaries from the serving and veteran echelons of the Indian Armed Forces, the diplomatic community, maritime industry, doyens of Indian academia, and distinguished personalities from the Fourth Estate. A number of facets of seminal importance to national security were addressed in the book. These included conceptual, geopolitical, economic, environmental and technological issues.

A collection of authors articles on foreign affairs and India s foreign policy orientations, covering the period from 1994 to the summer of 2001, events analyzed to see their impact on India's interests, intact with the experiences and observations. A valuable reference source for scholars and researchers dealing with India's foreign policy.

The present book offers a fascinating area of academic discourse which needs to be examined for a clear understanding of the elements of international politics which necessarily carry political ramification. It attempts to assess the bilateral relations, co-operations and contours of trades, accords and understandings. To be more precise, it deals with the treaties and accords, political and economic co-operations, trade relations, wars and conflicts of each neighbouring-nation with relation to India. The present book should be of interest to students, scholars, journalists and policy makers interested in the study of SAARC countries. It should be an indispensable reference for students of Political Science.

In the last couple of decades, India in particular and global South in general has witnessed a massive growth of cities. In India, more than one third of her population lives in cities. However, urban development, growth and expansion are not merely about infrastructures and enlargement of cityscapes. Yet, scholars have often ignored the social dynamics of this urban growth in terms of practices and everyday life in spatially grounded manner. It is this spatial rootedness of the urban social life, which draws our attention to neighbourhoods. Urban transformations shape subjectivities and experiences of people who live there. This edited volume focuses on neighbourhoods, their particularities and role in shaping our understanding of the urban in India. The essays aim to locate Indian experiences in larger context of global South and seek to decenter the dominant Euro-American discourse of urban social life. Moving away from the confines of a discourse saturated by the concerns of the political economy or specific disciplinary trajectories of urban sociology this edited volume asks, how people perceive and experience their residential environments? In doing so, it attempts to engage with the socio-spatial dynamics of the urban space by anchoring upon the idea of neighbourhoods. Here, the everyday social practices, value regimes, housing, caste and gender, mass violence, religiosity and urban planning come together to enable us novel insights and fresh perspectives. In this backdrop, the essays in the volume offer to understand neighbourhoods as changing socio-spatial units in their specific regional settings. The essays in this book underline the way value regimes (religiosity and subjectivities) give neighbourhoods their social meanings and stereotypes. On the whole, the volume unpacks the manner in which discourses and knowledge practices i.e. planning, architecture and urban discourses of governance shape the understanding of neighbourhoods. The essays in this volume disclose the linkages and disjunctures between the social practices of neighbourhoods and the language, logic and experiences of dwelling, housing, urban planning and governance. In sum, it brings about an understanding of the particularities and heterogeneities of neighbourhoods and neighbourliness.