Choices : inside the making of India's foreign policy / Shivshankar Menon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menon, Shivshankar, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

India--Foreign relations--1984-.

India.

India--Foreign relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2016.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2016]

Summary:

" A look behind the scenes of some of India's most critical foreign policy decisions by the country's former foreign secretary and national security adviser. Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been correct, other times not. In this insider's account, Shivshankar Menon describes some of the most crucial decisions India has faced during his long career in government--and how key personalities often had to make choices based on incomplete information under the pressure of fast-moving events. Menon either participated directly in or was associated with all the major Indian foreign policy decisions he describes in Choices. These include the 2005-08 U.S.-India nuclear agreement; the first-ever boundary-related agreement between India and China; India's decision not to use overt force against Pakistan in response to the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai; the 2009 defeat of the Tamil rebellion in Sri Lanka; and India's disavowal of the first-use of nuclear weapons. Menon examines what these choices reveal about India's strategic culture and decisionmaking, its policies toward the use of force, its long-term goals and priorities, and its future behavior. Choices will be of interest to anyone searching for answers to questions about how one of the world's great, rising powers makes its decisions on the world stage, and the difficult choices that sometimes had to be made. ".

Contents:

Pacifying the border: the 1993 border peace and tranquility agreement with China

Natural partners: the civil nuclear initiative with the United States

Restraint or ripost? The Mumbai attack and cross-border terrorism from Pakistan

Force works: Sri Lanka eliminates the Liberation Tigers, 2009

Why India pledges no-first-use of nuclear weapons

A final word.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0-8157-5194-X

0-8157-2911-1

OCLC:

956435226