About the Book: The Political Economy of Indias Foreign Policy
Product of a Post-doctoral research done at the University of Washington,
(Seattle),USA, the present work is an attempt to conceptualise and analyse the
postulates underlying Indias Foreign Policy from its formative years in the
early fifties to its maturation in the early eighties of the last century. It
subjects the management of foreign relations by India to a full scale
theoretical examination from the political economy angle-an exercise few
scholars then or now have undertaken .Notions of security, national interest,
diplomatic leverage , decision making process and so on have, in this work, been
revisited in the decisive