India persistently advocates for revamped multilateralism, forging a responsive, inclusive, just, and representative global order that suits the complexities of the 21st century. It believes a multipolar world will ensure international security, stability, and prosperity, and avoid the dominance of power or bloc. This comprehensive volume brings together accomplished academicians and practitioners through multidisciplinary and analytical methodologies to examine India's role in shaping the multipolar world, calibrating strategic partnerships with major powers, and steering solidarity and leadership in the Global South. It provides different aspects of India's role through its partnership with multilateral organizations, major powers, and neighbours, demonstrating how India's values and principles are reflected in its policies to promote a multipolar world. It facilitates understanding of India as a responsible country and reliable partner through theoretical and situational assessments that are invaluable to researchers, teachers, and policymakers.
This volume is designed for postgraduate students, researchers, academicians, policy makers, and think tanks engaged in teaching, research, and policy formulation concerning international relations, South Asian politics, foreign policy, diplomacy, and global governance. It provides an invaluable and pragmatic understanding of India's commitment towards promoting a multipolar world order and its leadership in the Global South.
Table of Contents:
Introduction Part 1: India’s Role in Shaping the Multipolar World 1. Navigating a Multiplex World: Exploring India's Interests and Strategies in the Post-Cold War Era 2. Furthering India’s Coalition Strategy in a Multipolar World 3. India’s Negotiating Strategies: Trade, Environment, and Security Regimes 4. India’s Maritime Engagement in a Multipolar World 5. India’s IPOI: A Compass for Convergent Cooperation in a Multipolar World Part 2: Calibrating Strategic Partnerships with Major Powers 6. India's Engagements with Major Powers7. India and France in the Maritime Domain 8. India-Japan Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Part 3: Steering Solidarity and Leadership in the Global South 9. India and the Global South 10. India’s Economic Diplomacy and the Politics of Multipolarity: A Global South Perspective 11. India’s Efforts in Empowering the Global South: Strengthening Commitment and Collectiveness
About the Author :
Adluri Subramanyam Raju, Ph.D., former Dean, International Relations, is Professor in the Centre for South Asian Studies and Coordinator of the UGC Centre for Maritime Studies at Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
