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International Affairs, a leading journal in the field of international relations, heads off 2017 with a special issue (Volume 93, Number 1, January 2017) dedicated to Indian foreign policy. The issue, which is co-edited by Manjari Chatterjee Miller of Boston University and Kate Sullivan de Estrada of Oxford University, presents the results of an international research network that has examined the impact of India’s rise and of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership on India’s foreign policy.
As Miller and Sullivan de Estrada note in the introduction, this special issue is particularly important because it is “the first time that Indian foreign policy has been the central focus of an English-language IR journal edited in ‘the West.’” This issue brings Indian foreign policy and its evolving geopolitical role to the forefront of Western academia, allowing leading scholars and policy-makers in the West to engage with the subject. Previously, “detailed discussions of Indian foreign policy tend[ed] to be scattered across and confined to regional or India-specific academic journals, think-tanks and the media. Rarely have western International Relations (IR) journals engaged seriously with India.”
The decision to focus on Modi is well-thought through and is reflected throughout the articles in the journal. Rather than focusing on Indian foreign policy in general, this issue has chosen to focus on the “current prime minister” in order to “draw early conclusions about the impact of Modi’s leadership on future foreign policy directions,” and so “bridge a much lamented academic–policy divide.” In addition to focusing on Modi, the issue also engages with the perspectives of “three major global players—the United States, China and the United Kingdom—in order to understand how India’s rise is viewed internationally.”
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Readers of the special issue should seek to understand contemporary India’s foreign policy strategy through the framework established established in Rajesh Basrur’s article “Modi’s foreign policy fundamentals: a trajectory unchanged.” Basrur argues convincingly that although Modi may differ greatly in terms of style from his predecessor as prime minister, Manmohan Singh, India’s foreign policy can be broadly defined by continuity from 1991 onwards. It was in 1991 when the major change in India’s foreign policy calculus occurred, leading to the current consensus among India’s foreign policy elites.
As Miller and Sullivan de Estrada note in the introduction, this special issue is particularly important because it is “the first time that Indian foreign policy has been the central focus of an English-language IR journal edited in ‘the West.’” This issue brings Indian foreign policy and its evolving geopolitical role to the forefront of Western academia, allowing leading scholars and policy-makers in the West to engage with the subject. Previously, “detailed discussions of Indian foreign policy tend[ed] to be scattered across and confined to regional or India-specific academic journals, think-tanks and the media. Rarely have western International Relations (IR) journals engaged seriously with India.”
The decision to focus on Modi is well-thought through and is reflected throughout the articles in the journal. Rather than focusing on Indian foreign policy in general, this issue has chosen to focus on the “current prime minister” in order to “draw early conclusions about the impact of Modi’s leadership on future foreign policy directions,” and so “bridge a much lamented academic–policy divide.” In addition to focusing on Modi, the issue also engages with the perspectives of “three major global players—the United States, China and the United Kingdom—in order to understand how India’s rise is viewed internationally.”
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Readers of the special issue should seek to understand contemporary India’s foreign policy strategy through the framework established established in Rajesh Basrur’s article “Modi’s foreign policy fundamentals: a trajectory unchanged.” Basrur argues convincingly that although Modi may differ greatly in terms of style from his predecessor as prime minister, Manmohan Singh, India’s foreign policy can be broadly defined by continuity from 1991 onwards. It was in 1991 when the major change in India’s foreign policy calculus occurred, leading to the current consensus among India’s foreign policy elites.
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