Global India The Pursuit Of Influence And Status Chris Ogden by Chris Ogden 9781032421612, 1032421614 instant download after payment.

India’s anticipated rise to prominence in what has been termed the ‘Asian 21st century’ will have a significant impact upon geopolitics in the coming decades. As India’s stature continues to increase across Asia and the world, appreciating which interests and principles structure the country’s international interaction has never been more important. Central to these dynamics is how India’s identity – and the longstanding values, principles and practices underpinning it – acts as the paramount factor that deeply structures the conduct of its international affairs. Acknowledging this centrality, this edited volume uses this factor as its foremost theme of analysis through which to understand and analyse India’s most important regional, great power and diplomatic interactions. Not only providing a mechanism better to appreciate the historical foundations of these relationships, the focus on identity is also necessary to appreciate how the Hindu nationalism of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of Narendra Modi is now permeating Indian diplomacy. For the BJP, the pursuit – and attainment – of global influence and heightened status is the driving imperative of the BJP with regard to India’s contemporary international affairs.

Biography

Chris Ogden is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Asian Affairs at the University of St Andrews, where he researches contemporary great power politics, foreign policy and national security dynamics across South and East Asia. His most recent book is The Authoritarian Century: China's Rise and the Demise of the Liberal International Order (Bristol University Press: 2022). https://chris-ogden.org/.