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Mao Zedong & China’s Foreign Policy
This book analyses China’s foreign policy from 1949 to 1976 through a cognitive-perceptual lens, emphasise Mao Zedong’s central role as the primary decision making authority. Moving beyond realist frameworks, it highlights how Mao’s ideological worldview—shaped by his ‘theory of contradictions’, revolutionary zeal, and use of historical analogies—drove China’s foreign policy, particularly in relation to Vietnam. His subjective interpretation of global affairs, reinforced by Marxist-Leninist principles and China’s historical identity, guided key strategic decisions. The study underscores the importance of individual leaders’ beliefs, perceptions, and psychological traits in shaping foreign policy, offering broader implications for understanding international relations through cognitive and psychological approaches.
China's Japan Policy: Learning from the Past
The book establishes a linkage between perceptions and foreign policy by exploring, how China’s behavior towards Japan is driven by mental shortcuts. The study is focused on the aspect of historical memories and how it factors in China’s Japan Policy. It explores the linkage between perceptions born from the past, their interpretations in the present and thereby, the shaping of policy behavior of China towards Japan. The author delves beyond the realist and liberal interpretations of international politics, which assume that states’ interests and material capabilities are a ‘given’ in the international system- thus, offering a conceptual understanding of Sino-Japanese relations in the twenty-first century.
Indian Defence Review (Jan-Mar 2019) Vol 34.1
IN THIS VOLUME: World Sans a Global Policeman: Turmoil as Us Exits - Lt Gen JS Bajwa (Editor) INDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW COMMENT : India’s Defence Forces: A 5 Years Review - Danvir Singh Modernisation of the Indian Air Force - Air Marshal Anil Chopra UAVs & UCAVs: The Next Generation Threat - Lt Col Mukund Bhardwaj Deconstructing the Rafale Ambiguity - Sumit Walia Tibet Infrastructure: New Panacea for the Middle Kingdom? - Claude Arpi Xi Jinping’s World-Class Military: Not Only Fights, But also Wins Wars - Dr Amrita Jash From Teaching to Learning a Lesson: China’s Nightmare in Pakistan - Dr Sundaram Rajasimman Unmanned Platforms in the IAF: The Need to Bolster - Gp Capt AK Sachdev ‘Make in India’ and the Indian Aerospace Industry: Quo Vadis? - Gp Capt AK Sachdev Indo-US Military Ties in the Regime of Air Power - Air Marshal Anil Chopra Is China Preparing for a conflict with India? - Gp Capt Ravinder Singh Chhatwal Did India ever formulate a Kashmir Policy? - RSN Singh Afghanistan: Thinking in Terms of Hindu Kush - Dr Sundaram Rajasimman Defence Forces and National Budget - Lt Gen Harwant Singh Aerospace and Defence News - Priya Tyagi
The International System in the Post-Pandemic World
This book analyses the multidimensional influence of COVID-19 on world politics, with a special focus on Euro-Asian relations, as well as changes in Europe caused by the pandemic. Expert international and interdisciplinary contributors analyse the measures undertaken to counter COVID, its use to justify increased governmental surveillance, the role of religion and regional institutions and the great power transformations, and the economic crisis that resulted from it. The question driving each chapter is to what extent COVID-19, and the reaction to it, transformed the world. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Public Diplomacy, World Politics and Security Studies. This publication will be also relevant for professionals in the corporate world, international business, state departments, political journalism and think tanks.
India and the Changing World Order
This book brings together new perspectives on India’s foreign policy in the light of a constantly shifting world order. From India’s relations in its immediate neighborhood to its China policy, from India-US relations under Biden to Quad, from Grand Strategy to peacekeeping, this book brings to the fore the shifting terrains of global politics and India’s significant place in it. The chapters in the volume: Critically examine changing preoccupations of India’s foreign policy and its geopolitical interests, including its Act East Policy; Include comprehensive inputs on India’s China policy and relations with Japan; Explore India’s relations with the USA, the Middle-East, Afghanistan, and Central Asia; Discuss at length India’s nuclear, energy, and foreign investment policies; Analyze India’s positioning on the emergence of the Indo-Pacific discourse. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science and international relations. It will also be of use to foreign policy and diplomacy practitioners, career bureaucrats and government think tanks.
India and Japan: Growing Partnership and Opportunities for Co-operation
This e-book is a compilation of the papers presented by the speakers during a two-day International Conference, curated around the theme ‘India and Japan: Growing Partnership and Opportunities for Cooperation’, organised by CPPR – Centre for Strategic Studies, Kochi in collaboration with the Consulate-General of Japan in Chennai on February 26–27, 2019 at Riviera Suites in Kochi. It consists of eight chapters providing a comprehensive outlook on India-Japan relations.
Dragon De-mystified
This book covers issues on China, its strategic issues and its effect on India. With a total of nineteen articles, this book covers issues like Economy of China, CPEC, China's Energy Diplomacy, Military Reforms, Military Strategy, One Belt One Road and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Civil Protection and Domestic Security in Contemporary Hybrid Warfare
Civil Protection and Domestic Security in Contemporary Hybrid Warfare presents a comprehensive approach to civil protection and domestic security in contemporary hybrid armed conflict. Hybrid warfare encompasses a number of dimensions such as military, political, psychological, cognitive, space, social, economic, informational, or technological. Current conflicts show that hybrid warfare, despite regional differences, is based on a common operational framework that combines conventional and unconventional tactics targeting not only military structures, but also largely targeting civilians (societies). All this makes threats more diffuse, subtle, and difficult to predict. They also often take...
The Concept of Active Defence in China's Military Strategy
This book argues that China's rise is driven by the self-fulfilling prophecy of the dream of the 'great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation', and Beijing's economic miracle has translated into a call for military preparedness guided by the logic of 'fight and win'. China's quest lies in perfecting the art of being 'combat-ready' with the aim of making the People's Liberation Army a 'world-class military'. While Beijing maintains that it has a defensive military posture, the author argues that its growing military capabilities and increasing unilateral behavioural dispositions highlight an 'offensive' intent-demonstrating the 'China Threat'.
The Dossier by IndraStra
On August 21, 2017, United States' President Donald Trump provided the roadmap to America's next South Asia strategy, mainly centered on America‟s Afghanistan Policy. Given the United States, longtime involvement in the region, America‟s Afghanistan policy plays a keyrole in United States overall foreign policy. Given the primacy attached, Trump‟s speech reflected two very significant factors: First, there was a clear identification and condemnation of Pakistan as a significant actor contributing to terrorism. Secondly, there was greater confidence expressed in India‟s role in the region at large and Afghanistan in particular. Keeping this context, the present series attempts to arti...
