1. Introduction 2. Power Transition in Asia and Indian Foreign Policy 3. Indo-US Ties in the Age of ‘Pivot’ 4. India’s China Challenge 5. The Indo-Japanese Strategic Partnership 6. India and Regional Balance of Power in Asia 7. Conclusion

Harsh V. Pant is Professor of International Relations at King’s College London, UK. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., USA. His current research is focused on Asian security issues. Yogesh Joshi is a research scholar at the Center for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He has been a fellow at Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, USA, and is currently an international Ph D partnering fellow at Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, UK.