The Foreign Policy of Rajiv Gandhi: An Analysis

The Foreign Policy of Rajiv Gandhi: An Analysis
Author: Sadanand Hadagali
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2024-03-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

The book is based on research conducted on “The Foreign Policy of Rajiv Gandhi: An Analysis”. It is truly a path-breaking study, enabling readers to know about India’s foreign policy under the multidimensional leadership of Rajiv Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India. However, this volume is unique in the sense that the author is not from an academic background but has exhibited his resolve to display the value of the academic knowledge that the author has received. This book makes such a distinction because the author has made a significant contribution by covering all aspects of the foreign policy of Rajiv Gandhi. This book attempts to understand the significance of leadership factor in the foreign policy-making process from the perspective of the questions that relate to the influence of leadership on the conduct of India’s foreign policy and international relations. This work analyses India’s foreign policy under the dynamic leadership of Rajiv Gandhi and also attempts to capture the multifaceted roles played by Rajiv Gandhi as Chairman of the NAM, SAARC, AFRICA Fund, Crusader against Apartheid and playing a mediatory role in bringing the warring groups to the table. Taking the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi as his case, the author discusses the role of Gandhi's leadership during two significant events; the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka and the signing of the Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty.

Rajiv

Rajiv
Author: Sonia Gandhi
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1992
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book is a portrait of Rajiv Gandhi by the person who knew him best: his wife Sonia. It is in four parts, the first and last being in the nature of meditations - one in words, the other in images. In the first, Sonia Gandhi reveals Rajiv through recollections and reflections, delicate and restrained in tone but powerful in resonance. In the last, Rajiv discloses the essence of himself in a gallery of his own photographs. The biographical narrative in between progresses through pictures and extended captions, interweaving Rajiv's personal history with the milieu in which it unfolded.

India's Democracy

India's Democracy
Author: Atul Kohli
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1400859514

Nine contributors analyze state-society relations in India. A new epilogue covers the Rajiv Gandhi period, leading up to the important elections of December 1989. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy
Author: David Malone
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2015
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 019874353X

Following the end of the Cold War, the economic reforms in the early 1990s, and ensuing impressive growth rates, India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs, particularly on international economic issues. Its domestic market is fast-growing and India is becoming increasingly important to global geo-strategic calculations, at a time when it has been outperforming many other growing economies, and is the only Asian country with the heft to counterbalance China. Indeed, so much is India defined internationally by its economic performance (and challenges) that other dimensions of its internal situation, notably relevant to security, and of its foreign policy have been relatively neglected in the existing literature. This handbook presents an innovative, high profile volume, providing an authoritative and accessible examination and critique of Indian foreign policy. The handbook brings together essays from a global team of leading experts in the field to provide a comprehensive study of the various dimensions of Indian foreign policy.

New Directions in India's Foreign Policy

New Directions in India's Foreign Policy
Author: Harsh V. Pant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108645666

India's foreign policy has witnessed a dramatic transformation since the end of the Cold War. Though academic study of Indian foreign policy has also shown a degree of maturity, theoretical developments have been underwhelming. Scholars have introduced new concepts and examined Indian foreign policy through new prisms, but a cohesive research agenda has not yet been charted. This volume intends to fill that void. It brings together new cutting-edge research in the field of Indian foreign policy - both at the theoretical and empirical level - so as to shape the discourse on foreign policy of one of the most important players in global politics. This volume explores key concepts like 'constructivism' and 'territoriality' and analyses their contribution to the academic discourse on Indian foreign policy. Issues such as the 'Indo-Pacific' and the 'responsibility to protect' have also been examined to address the expanding horizons of Indian foreign policy.

India's Foreign Policy

India's Foreign Policy
Author: Harsh V. Pant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108473660

This volume brings together cutting-edge research in the field of Indian foreign policy both at the theoretical and empirical level.

Ibss: Political Science: 1987

Ibss: Political Science: 1987
Author: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1991
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415052429

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institutions whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
Author: Neena Gopal
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9386057689

On 21 May 1991, journalist Neena Gopal had finished just one part of an interview with Rajiv Gandhi—the last of his life—when his car reached the election rally at Sriperumbudur. Moments later, Rajiv Gandhi was dead, blown up by suicide bomber Dhanu, irrevocably changing the course of Indian politics, as Neena Gopal, just yards behind him, watched in horror. In this gripping, definitive book, Gopal reconstructs the chain of events in India and at the LTTE’s headquarters in Sri Lanka where the assassination plot was hatched, and follows the trail of investigation that led to the assassins being brought to justice. Drawing on extensive interviews, research and her own vast experience as a journalist, she deftly establishes the background—the shortsightedness of India’s Sri Lanka policy; the friction between the intelligence agencies and between the agencies and the external affairs ministry; the many warnings that went unheeded; and the implacable hatred that LTTE supremo Prabhakaran felt for Rajiv Gandhi. Bringing all these complex threads together, Gopal takes us step by step to Sriperumbudur as Rajiv Gandhi walked inexorably to his death on that tragic May evening twenty-five years ago.

The Great Game in Afghanistan

The Great Game in Afghanistan
Author: Kallol Bhattacherjee
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9352644409

At the height of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, a complex multinational diplomacy had proposed setting up a coalition government in Kabul as a solution to the 'Afghan problem'. Even as all sides worked on the coalition, the US took steps that India considered a 'stab in the back'. With the help of the official papers collected by US ambassador John Gunther Dean and conversations with Ronen Sen, Rajiv Gandhi's diplomatic aide during those crucial years, the author recreates the falling apart of the India-US cooperation and the catastrophic effect it had on South Asian history.

India's Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism

India's Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism
Author: Arndt Michael
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137263121

The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.