India Rising

Description

India Rising unpacks the country’s approach to global governance by systematically considering three potential factors—ideas, interests, and institutions—that have an impact on India’s foreign policy making. The editors and contributors of this volume examine possible explanations for India’s varying compliance with global regimes and its contributions to the development and change of those regimes in areas such as nuclear non-proliferation, maritime security, counter-terrorism, cyber-governance, democracy promotion, climate change, and trade policy.

The book also discusses how India is globally perceived in differing ways: as a hub of diplomatic interaction and as a difficult negotiator with a frequently inflexible stance. Looking at the prime ministerial years of Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi’s first term, it examines India’s often ambivalent approach to global governance and foreign policy making in the backdrop of its image as a rising global power. It thus seeks to answer the primary question: What drives rising India’s conduct on the world stage?

About the Editors

Johannes Plagemann is a political scientist and research fellow at GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany.

Sandra Destradi is Professor of International Relations and Regional Governance at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany, and is a researcher at GIGA.

Amrita Narlikar is the President of GIGA and Professor of International Relations at the University of Hamburg.

Table of contents

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in

India’s Foreign Policy on the Global Level—A Framework for Analysis

Johannes Plagemann , Sandra Destradi , and Amrita Narlikar

1. Understanding India’s Exceptional Engagement with the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime

Kate Sullivan de Estrada

2. Terrorism in India

Sumit Ganguly and Brandon Joseph Miliate

3. Maritime Security and the Indian Ocean

Rahul Roy-Chaudhury

4. Rising Digital Power: India’s Global Internet Governance Policy

Hannes Ebert

5. Political Economy of India’s Trade Liberalization

Biswajit Dhar

6. Deciphering India’s Foreign Policy on Climate Change: Role of Interests, Institutions, and Ideas

Sandeep Sengupta

7. Democracy Promotion

Christian Wagner

Conclusion: Patterns, Sequences of Change, and Implications

Johannes Plagemann , Sandra Destradi , and Amrita Narlikar

Editors and Contributors

Index