India and Its Neighbours II: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Maldives, Bhutan and Afghanistan
In each of these relationships India’s structural advantage is proximity and its structural problem is that proximity is also what makes it a domestic…
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India and Its Neighbours I: Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal
These three relationships fail in three different ways: Pakistan because the dispute is about the states’ founding ideas, Bangladesh because domestic political alternation resets…
South Asia as a Region: Comparative Politics and Democratisation
South Asia is a region by geography and history and not by politics. Its defining feature is asymmetry: one state accounts for most of…
Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy
The organising shift of the last decade is conceptual before it is geographical: India stopped describing itself as a balancing power and started acting…
India and the Global South: Africa, Latin America and West Asia
India’s claim to speak for the Global South rests on a genuine record and a genuine tension: it advocates for developing countries while pursuing…
India in the Global Economy: From Dirigisme to the WTO
India entered the world economy as a claimant demanding reform of the rules, and now participates as a large economy that shapes them. Its…
India and the Global Centres of Power II: China, Japan and the European Union
China is the relationship that defines India’s strategic environment; Japan and the European Union are the relationships India has developed largely because of it.
India and the Global Centres of Power I: The United States and Russia
India’s two most consequential external relationships pull in opposite directions and India has declined to choose. Whether that is skilful hedging or deferred cost…
India and Non-Alignment
Non-alignment was never neutrality. It was the claim that a poor new state could judge each issue on its merits, and the argument about…
Indian Foreign Policy: Determinants, Institutions and Evolution
India’s foreign policy has changed its instruments repeatedly and its objective almost never: strategic autonomy, meaning the capacity to decide issue by issue without…
Contemporary Global Concerns
Each of these issues has the same structure: the costs are global, the authority is national, and the states best able to act are…
Regionalisation of World Politics
Regional organisations succeed to the degree that their members are willing to be bound. The European Union went furthest because its founding purpose was…