Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy

Mischa Hansel is an Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the RWTH Aachen University. Previously he worked at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and the University of Cologne where he obtained his Ph.D in 2012. Several of his works deal with the question of whether or not liberal and constructivist FPA approaches are suitable to the study of Indian foreign policy. Recent articles appeared in Global Change, Peace & Security and Asian Politics and Policy respectively. Other research interests include the norms and discourses guiding decisions on military interventions, Western and Non-western military transformation processes, arms control regimes, and German foreign policy.Raphaëlle Khan is a PhD candidate in History/International Politics at King’s College London. Her work focuses on India’s emergence as an international sovereign actor between the 1920s and the 1960s, through an analysis of Indian understandings of sovereignty. She holds a double Master’s Degree in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Her research interests include India’s diplomacy in multilateral arenas, International Organisations, International Politics of South Asia, Rising Powers, and Europe-India relations.Mélissa Levaillant is a Researcher at the Institute of Strategic Research (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of Defence. She obtained her PhD from Science Po Paris in 2016, where she teaches World Politics and South Asian Security. Her dissertation was on the institutionalisation of India's ministry of External Affairs, from 1947 to 2015. Her other main research interests include India's foreign policy towards the Middle East and security issues in the Indian Ocean. In 2012, she published a book on India's foreign policy towards Iran.

• Chapter 1. Historiography of South Asia’s International Relations. Chapter 2. International Relations and Foreign Policy in India: Policy-oriented Works between Discipline and State. Chapter 3. More than a Rule Taker: The India Way of Multilateralism. Chapter 4. India as a Norm Claimer: Normative Struggles and the Assertion of Sovereignty at the San Francisco Conference (1945) Chapter 5. Theorizing Indian Strategic Culture(s): Taking Stock of a Controversial Debate.Chapter 6. In Modi’s Might? Maintenance Processes and Prospects for De-escalation in the India-Pakistan Rivalry, 1997-2015 Chapter 7. India and Liberal IR Theory: What Role for Public Opinion? Chapter 8. The Contribution of Neo-institutionalism to the Analysis of India’s Diplomacy in the Making. Chapter 9. India’s Taliban Dilemma: To Contain or to Engage? Chapter 10 Inside Out? Assessing the Domestic Determinants of India’s External Behavior

"Though it is often called the "largest democracy on earth," Indian foreign policy remains under-theorized. This timely volume, therefore, represents a significant contribution to the literature. Historical, analytical, cultural, and critical insights can all be found within its pages. Scholars of Indian politics as well as Foreign Policy Analysis will find the diverse chapters very useful as they attempt to parse Indian foreign policy." - Valerie M. Hudson, Texas A&M University"After the new wave of Indian foreign policy scholarship that brought archival research and frameworks of international and global history to bear on the subject, this volumes presages a second new wave of scholarship, combining theory, eclectic methods, and rich empirics. Vigorous, insightful, and ranging over historical and contemporary foreign policy cases, this is a stimulating addition to the emerging literature on India’s external relations and policies." - Kanti Bajpai, Wilmar Chair in Asian Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore