423 research outputs found
Rising India and Its Global Governance Imperatives
No full textThis is an introductory chapter which situates the volume in the wider context of global governance debates and India’s role in them. This volume seeks to examine India’s reaction to the current crisis in global governance, its stake in a liberal world order, its interests in ushering change in existing structures, and its capacity to influence and shape the future of global governance.</p
India and Maritime Governance
No full textThis chapter examines India’s involvement in maritime governance in IOR and argues that it is shaped, first and foremost, by geopolitics. Of the three drivers of India’s interest in maritime governance, geopolitics, economic interest, and non-traditional security, geopolitics is undisputedly the most important one. India’s involvement in maritime governance is driven by the geopolitics of countering China in the Indian Ocean and establishing Indian leadership in the IOR.</p
India's Subregional Connectivity Initiatives
No full textThis chapter attempts to map out India’s evolving subregional approach and explicates the strategic rationale behind it. Even as India has pushed to expand subregional connectivity, there are both domestic and external challenges. The chapter examines how India has been addressing some of the major hurdles underlining its policy implications.</p
2016: a year of dramatic changes in South Asia
No full textHarsh V Pant reflects on how developments in 2016 highlight that the Modi government is gradually altering the foundations of Indian foreign policy. He notes that India’s non-committal attitude to the 17th non-alignment summit, combative Pakistan policy, and efforts to woo the US and key neighbours all indicate the South Asian strategic milieu is in flux and old rules no longer apply
An aspirational India on the global stage
No full textAs India turns 75, the LSE South Asia Centre will publish commemorative posts till August 2023 to dwell upon India from multiple perspectives. In this post, Harsh V. Pant discusses the emerging priorities in India’s foreign policy, and where an ‘India First’ engagement with the global order — stemming from its domestic socio-economic realities & aspirations — may lead India in future years
Politics and Geopolitics: Decoding India’s Neighbourhood Challenge: Edited by Harsh V. Pant. Publisher: Rupa Books, 2021 ISBN: 978-93-90918-57-7, 240 pp.
Full text linkWith the change in the global geopolitical landscape, the popular discourse among scholars is that global power is shifting toward the east. This shift in global power is primarily because of China’s rise and India’s emerging economy bringing new challenges to global politics, especially in the South Asian region with ‘China rise’ as it pivots, the book ‘Politics and Geopolitics: Decoding India’s Neighbourhood Challenge,” edited by Prof. Harsh V Pant, is a timely work to analyse the changing contours of national interest in India’s neighbourhood
Pakistan: The Politics of Nuclear Force Building
No full textSouth Africa, as the first state to roll back its nuclear weapons programme, has been especially active in working to achieve nuclear disarmament. South African diplomats continue to emphasize the 'three pillars' of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) – the right of all states to nuclear energy, non-proliferation, and the agreement of the nuclear weapons states to roll back their programmes. South Africa's position towards nuclear weapons is informed by the apartheid regime's development of nuclear weapons in the 1970s and 1980s and rollback from 1989 to 1993, as well as the opposition of the African National Congress to the regime and its nuclear weapons. South Africa places special emphasis on Article VI of the NPT and presses the nuclear weapons states finally to follow through on their commitment to disarm. South African diplomats stressed that the review and extension process should be strengthened, which would reinforce the non-proliferation regime
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