INDIA IN THE 21st CENTURY: Foreign Policy Perspectives in a Complex World (Paperback-2023)

What are the important perspectives of Indian foreign policy today, in the third decade of the 21st century? Should India opt for multi-alignment, in place of non-alignment? Should India pursue its economic diplomacy more vigorously? Will India be able to counter-balance China in the near future? In which directions India’s bilateral relations with the U.S., China, Russia, Japan, EU, Israel, and other West Asian nations are heading? What is the future of QUAD, of which India is a member; and how India will deal with the new Taliban government in Afghanistan? How does India view its relations with the UN and the Global South? Has any strategic culture developed in Indian foreign policy? What are the institutional mechanisms behind Indian foreign policy? What the future holds for India, from the viewpoints of foreign policy? This volume has tried to find answers to all these crucial questions surrounding Indian foreign policy today. A combined effort of experienced academics, this book, therefore, promises to be immensely helpful for students, researchers, civil service aspirants, policy planners, and others interested to know the real perspectives of Indian foreign policy today and the future of India in global politics.

Aneek Chatterjee is a senior academic and noted analyst on international relations. He has more than three decades of teaching experience in UG and PG classes. Presently, he is a faculty at the Post Graduate Department of Political Science, Hooghly Mohsin College (a 186-year-old UGC approved college with potential for excellence), West Bengal, India. He has also served as Professor and Head at the Department of Political Science, Presidency College and Presidency University, Kolkata. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia (USA) and a recipient of the prestigious ICCR Chair, awarded by the Government of India to teach in reputed foreign universities.

Dr. Chatterjee has authored and edited 15 books and written nearly one hundred articles and book chapters on India’s international relations. His books are followed in more than five hundred universities across the globe. He has presented nearly 150 academic lectures in 16 countries and sits in the Editorial Boards of three international academic journals. His areas of interest include international relation theory, politics of south and west Asia, peace and conflict, Indian politics and foreign policy, and India-US relations.