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China and India in Central AsiaAn Elephant in a China Shop? India’s Look North to Central Asia … Seeing Only China

China and India in Central Asia: An Elephant in a China Shop? India’s Look North to Central Asia... [The evaluation of New Delhi’s agency in Central Asia attests to the regionalization of India’s post-cold war foreign policy—that is, the development of distinct external policies toward different global regions. In this respect, the discourses of India’s relations with Central Asia offer insights into the country’s strategic culture and the modes of security governance that it fashions. It has to be noted from the outset that this chapter undertakes an assessment of the narrative construction of India’s involvement in Central Asia. The claim is that by focusing on the discourses of foreign policy making, this mode of analysis offers the opportunity to simultaneously experience and deduce the ingredients that go into the articulation of New Delhi’s external outlook.2 In other words, the discursive engagement with India’s interactions in Central Asia not only indicates that India has a “strategic will” but also probes “how [New Delhi] will manifest it in action.”3] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

China and India in Central AsiaAn Elephant in a China Shop? India’s Look North to Central Asia … Seeing Only China

Part of the The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy Book Series
Editors: Laruelle, Marlène; Huchet, Jean-François; Peyrouse, Sébastien; Balci, Bayram
Kavalski, Emilian
China and India in Central Asia — Oct 9, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
ISBN
978-1-349-28791-8
Pages
41 –60
DOI
10.1057/9780230114357_4
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Abstract

[The evaluation of New Delhi’s agency in Central Asia attests to the regionalization of India’s post-cold war foreign policy—that is, the development of distinct external policies toward different global regions. In this respect, the discourses of India’s relations with Central Asia offer insights into the country’s strategic culture and the modes of security governance that it fashions. It has to be noted from the outset that this chapter undertakes an assessment of the narrative construction of India’s involvement in Central Asia. The claim is that by focusing on the discourses of foreign policy making, this mode of analysis offers the opportunity to simultaneously experience and deduce the ingredients that go into the articulation of New Delhi’s external outlook.2 In other words, the discursive engagement with India’s interactions in Central Asia not only indicates that India has a “strategic will” but also probes “how [New Delhi] will manifest it in action.”3]

Published: Oct 9, 2015

Keywords: Foreign Policy; Nuclear Test; Bilateral Relation; Indian Commentator; Grand Strategy

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