How India became territorial : foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics / Itty Abraham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abraham, Itty, 1960- author.

Series:

Studies in Asian security.

Studies in Asian Security

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Territory, National--India.

Territory, National.

East Indian diaspora.

Geopolitics--India.

Geopolitics.

India--Boundaries.

India.

India--Foreign relations.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination of the Indian experience during the 20th century, Itty Abraham addresses these important questions and offers a new conceptualization of foreign policy as a state territorializing practice.Identifying the contested process of decolonization as the root of contemporary Asian inter-state territorial

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1 Territory and Foreign Policy

2 A Brief International History of the Nation-State

3 Diaspora as Foreign Policy

4 Geopolitics as Foreign Policy

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804792684

0804792682

OCLC:

923709131