India And Asian Geopolitics The Past Present Shivshankar Menon by Shivshankar Menon 9780815737230, 9780815737247, 0815737238, 0815737246 instant download after payment.

This book is the story of India in that changing Asia, of how India has
adapted to changes since Indian independence in 1947, when the modern Indian
state came into being. While India is unique, and therefore a singular actor in
many respects—geography, history, demography, culture—it has also always
been a part of the Asian story and an active participant in it. Even as India experimented briefly after independence with an inward-looking approach in
its quest to transform, develop, and strengthen itself, the country has consistently
recognized that it must work with others in the international system
to further its own interests. Paradoxically, as India has evolved and gathered
power in the international system, its need for and dependence on the world
have steadily increased. While India attempted from the start to pursue interests
in partnership with other states and actors different from itself, it was often
alone abroad because of the unique set of geopolitical compulsions and drivers
for its foreign and security policies. Despite that, it was still able to achieve
many of the nation’s international goals not only because of its relative power or
influence, hard or soft, but because of its use of the shifting geopolitical situation
around the country, particularly in Asia. That recent past, along with the
consequences of India’s choices in Asia’s geopolitics, is still with us. Hence, the
title of this book. Today, India is more connected to and involved with the world
around it than ever before, as its interests grow and change. That is the story
this book attempts to tell.