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    The Political Economy of India's Foreign Policy

    By Dr Radharaman Chakrabarti

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    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 India’s 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 context of a domestic-external continuum in which forces of economic origin were seen as defining the rationale of a foreign policy that was supposed to take a developing nation to the fulfilment of its legitimate aspirations. At the same time, the innovations that were made with practically no earlier precedent to go by and the kind of institution building required for the purpose have been dealt with critically so as to bring out the interplay of domestic development aspirations and the art of ensuring policy independence by appropriate diplomacy. In the turbulent context of the Cold War the Indian experiment in the management of foreign relations and the positive gains it reaped in collectivising the principle of non-alignment did constitute a subject that demanded a non-conventional approach to get to the bottom of it. That is precisely what distinguishes the book by one of the most qualified experts in International Relations, enjoying intellectual acclaim both at home and abroad. The book starts with a theoretical discourse on the applicability or otherwise of the political economy approach as it stood at the time of writing. In subsequent chapters it examines a dependent economy’s quest for an independent foreign policy, the central challenge before the external affairs ministry of the country. It needed, among other things handling of external aid, and foreign investment to recharge the developmental enterprises at home in a manner that would not interfere with the autonomy in judging and reacting to external events. Economic restructuring at home which brought a strong public sector as complementary to a fledgling private sector constituted an essential aspect. So also came up the new experiment of building a collective economic front with other developing nations. In its compact, yet well documented , analysis the book provides the most engaging scholarly presentation of the subject in all its relevant technicalities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKW Publishers
    Release dateMar 15, 2014
    ISBN9789385714474
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    The Political Economy of India's Foreign Policy
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    Dr Radharaman Chakrabarti

    A topper in Political Science with specialisation in International Relations, Radharaman Chakrabarti was educated at Presidency College, University of Calcutta and the University of London. He did his Ph.D as a Commonwealth Scholar at the London School of Economics (1966-69) during which period he also attended the Hague Academy of International Law Sumer School (1967). For his Post-doctoral work , he worked at the University of Washington (Seattle) as an Indo-US Exchange Fellow (1978-79). Though successful in several All India Competitive Services Examinations, Chakrabarti preferred the teaching profession and was appointed Assistant Professor at the Presidency College , Calcutta the very same year of his post-graduation. Subsequently, in 1971 he joined the University of Burdwan as Professor and Head of the Department of Political science where he rose to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Arts. A decade later Professor Chakrabarti was appointed the First Director of Netaji Institute of Asian Studies, an interdisciplinary research organisation set up by the Government of West Bengal and continued in that position till 1997, during which period he launched the quarterly research journal “ASIAN STUDIES” which is now in its 22nd year of publication. In 1997 the newly set up Netaji Subhas Open University had him as its first Vice Chancellor and soon blossomed into a premier distance learning body in higher education. Currently, Professor Chakrabarti is attached to Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture as Project Director of a UNESCO-supported programme on Human Unity. Recently, he has been offered the Vivekananda Chair Professorship in Social Sciences by the University of Calcutta. Besides contributions to learned journals, the numerous publications of Professor Chakrabarti include six major works: Intervention and the Problem of its Control in the 20th Century, Theory & Practice of International Politics, Political Economy of India’s Foreign Policy, UN: A Study in Essentials, India’s Foreign Policy in a Globalised World Economy,Aspects of Political Thinking in India and three edited volumes: Ethno-Nationalism, The Challenges of Terrorism and India’s Constructive Engagement in Asia and Around

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