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Choices : Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy Shivshankar
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- Book Title
- Choices : Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy Shivshankar
- ISBN
- 9780815729105
- Subject Area
- Political Science
- Publication Name
- Choices : inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Brookings Institution Press
- Subject
- World / General, International Relations / General, Security (National & International), International Relations / Diplomacy
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Series
- Geopolitics in the 21st Century Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Item Weight
- 16.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 213 Pages, 176 Pages
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A look behind the scenes of some of India's most critical foreign policy decisions by the country's former foreign secretary and national security adviser. Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been correct, other times not. In this insider's account, Shivshankar Menon describes some of the most crucial decisions India has faced during his long career in government--and how key personalities often had to make choices based on incomplete information under the pressure of fast-moving events. Menon either participated directly in or was associated with all the major Indian foreign policy decisions he describes in Choices. These include the 2005-08 U.S.-India nuclear agreement; the first-ever boundary-related agreement between India and China; India's decision not to use overt force against Pakistan in response to the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai; the 2009 defeat of the Tamil rebellion in Sri Lanka; and India's disavowal of the first-use of nuclear weapons. Menon examines what these choices reveal about India's strategic culture and decisionmaking, its policies toward the use of force, its long-term goals and priorities, and its future behavior. Choices will be of interest to anyone searching for answers to questions about how one of the world's great, rising powers makes its decisions on the world stage, and the difficult choices that sometimes had to be made.
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Brookings Institution Press
ISBN-10
0815729103
ISBN-13
9780815729105
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219603442
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Choices : inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
World / General, International Relations / General, Security (National & International), International Relations / Diplomacy
Publication Year
2016
Series
Geopolitics in the 21st Century Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science
Number of Pages
213 Pages, 176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2016-030037
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ds449.M46 2016
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Shivshankar Menon's Choices is a short book concentrating on five major challenges that Indian leaders have had to confront since independence, chosen because he was involved in all of them. It is written simply and powerfully. As Ambassador, High Commissioner, Foreign Secretary, and National Security Adviser, Menon played roles that were not insubstantial, but he writes with modesty and objectivity. The last chapter of the book begins with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi that "True power speaks softly. It has no reason to shot." That describes not just Menon but also the India he portrays.--George Yeo, former Foreign Minister, Singapore, Finally an authoritative, accessible, and analytical account of contemporary Indian foreign policy, written with sophistication and style. Menon's exposition of five key choices is absolutely required reading for anyone interested in why India does what it does. It has no peer.--Kanti Bajpai, Wilmar Chair in Asian Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Shivshankar Menon's Choices is a short book concentrating on five major challenges that Indian leaders have had to confront since independence, chosen because he was involved in all of them. It is written simply and powerfully. As Ambassador, High Commissioner, Foreign Secretary, and National Security Adviser, Menon played roles that were not insubstantial, but he writes with modesty and objectivity. The last chapter of the book begins with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi that "True power speaks softly. It has no reason to shot." That describes not just Menon but also the India he portrays."- George Yeo, former Foreign Minister, Singapore; "Finally an authoritative, accessible, and analytical account of contemporary Indian foreign policy, written with sophistication and style. Menon's exposition of five key choices is absolutely required reading for anyone interested in why India does what it does. It has no peer."- Kanti Bajpai, Wilmar Chair in Asian Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore; "This is a must-read for anyone interested in how at least one of India's most sophisticated geopolitical and security thinkers sees the world, India's place in it, and its relationship with the United States."- Vipin Narang, War on the Rocks; "Menon's book is an excellent and authoritative guide to how some of the stars in India's foreign-policy leadership think about the inevitable trade-offs they deal with."- Teresita C. Schaffer, Survival; "Written by one of India's premier foreign policy intellectuals and practitioners since the country's independence, Shivshankar Menon's brilliant analysis shines a powerful beam into the shadows of Indian government decisionmaking in recent years. An indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand Indian foreign policy past, present, and future."- Robert Blackwill, former United States Ambassador to India; "Shivshankar Menon brings coherence, insight, and narrative verve to crucial episodes in India's emergence over the 40-plus years that span his distinguished and eclectic career. Many of the choices he writes about benefited from his own sagacity. In addition to his skill as a diplomat and policymaker on behalf of his own country, he has a rare gift of understanding the sources of other countries' sense of their own aspirations, interests, and anxieties. These virtues make for a brilliant contribution to the annals of international relations."- Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Shivshankar Menon brings coherence, insight, and narrative verve to crucial episodes in India's emergence over the 40-plus years that span his distinguished and eclectic career. Many of the choices he writes about benefited from his own sagacity. In addition to his skill as a diplomat and policymaker on behalf of his own country, he has a rare gift of understanding the sources of other countries'sense of their own aspirations, interests, and anxieties. These virtues make for a brilliant contribution to the annals of international relations. --Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Written by one of India's premier foreign policy intellectuals and practitioners since the country's independence, Shivshankar Menon's brilliant analysis shines a powerful beam into the shadows of Indian government decisionmaking in recent years. An indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand Indian foreign policy--past, present, and future. --Robert Blackwill, former United States Ambassador to India Shivshankar Menon's Choices is a short book concentrating on five major challenges that Indian leaders have had to confront since independence, chosen because he was involved in all of them. It is written simply and powerfully. As Ambassador, High Commissioner, Foreign Secretary, and National Security Adviser, Menon played roles that were not insubstantial, but he writes with modesty and objectivity. The last chapter of the book begins with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi that "True power speaks softly. It has no reason to shot." That describes not just Menon but also the India he portrays. --George Yeo, former Foreign Minister, Singapore Finally an authoritative, accessible, and analytical account of contemporary Indian foreign policy, written with sophistication and style. Menon's exposition of five key choices is absolutely required reading for anyone interested in why India does what it does. It has no peer. --Kanti Bajpai, Wilmar Chair in Asian Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Written by one of India's premier foreign policy intellectuals and practitioners since the country's independence, Shivshankar Menon's brilliant analysis shines a powerful beam into the shadows of Indian government decisionmaking in recent years. An indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand Indian foreign policy--past, present, and future.--Robert Blackwill, former United States Ambassador to India, This is a must-read for anyone interested in how at least one of India's most sophisticated geopolitical and security thinkers sees the world, India's place in it, and its relationship with the United States.--Vipin Narang, War on the Rocks, Menon's book is an excellent and authoritative guide to how some of the stars in India's foreign-policy leadership think about the inevitable trade-offs they deal with.--Teresita C. Schaffer, Survival, Shivshankar Menon brings coherence, insight, and narrative verve to crucial episodes in India's emergence over the 40-plus years that span his distinguished and eclectic career. Many of the choices he writes about benefited from his own sagacity. In addition to his skill as a diplomat and policymaker on behalf of his own country, he has a rare gift of understanding the sources of other countries'sense of their own aspirations, interests, and anxieties. These virtues make for a brilliant contribution to the annals of international relations. --Strobe Talbott, President, Brookings Institution and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
Copyright Date
2016
Dewey Decimal
327.54
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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