In this book, Sanjaya Baru, one of India’s most respected commentators on political and economic issues, pays close attention to the strategic consequences of India’s increasingly impressive economic performance. The new turn in India”s economic policies and performance in the last decade of the twentieth century; the success of Indian enterprise in the post-WTO world; the emergence of a confident professional middle-class; a demonstrated nuclear capability; and the resilience of an open society and an open economy, in the face of multiple and complex challenges, have all shaped India”s response to the tectonic shifts in the global balance of power in the post-Cold War era.
In this collection of academic essays and newspaper columns, Baru explores the business of diplomacy and the diplomacy of business in a rising India. The role of India”s cultural and intellectual ”soft power” in shaping global perceptions of India are examined. The book offers a panoramic view of the geopolitics and the geo-economics of India”s recent rise as a free market democracy, and as such will interest both experts and lay readers.
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