About the Book: Indias Foreign Policy Discourse and its Conceptions of World
Order: The Quest for Power and Identity
Given Indias growing power and aspirations in world politics, there has been
increasing interest among practitioners and scholars of international relations
(IR) in how India views the world.
This book offers the first systematic investigation of the world order models
in Indias foreign policy discourse. By examining how the signifier 'world order
is endowed with meaning in the discourse, it moves beyond Western-centric IR and
sheds light on how a state located outside the Western 'core conceptualizes
world order. Drawing on poststructuralism and discourse theory,