Crossing the Rubicon : The Shaping of India's New Foreign Policy/C. Raja Mohan. Reprint. New Delhi, Penguin, 2005, xxii, 329 p., (pbk). ISBN 0-14-400036-9.

    Contents: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The nuclear leap forward. 2. Beyond non-alignment. 3. Returning to the west. 4. The US: A natural Ally? 5. Reviving the Russian connection. 6. Emulating China. 7. Containing Pakistan. 8. Rediscovering Lord Curzon. 9. Re-forming the subcontinent. 10. Diplomacy for the second republic postscript: India at ease. Endnotes. Index.

    "India's nuclear tests in May 1998 had reverberations that went far beyond the Thar Desert. Jettisoned, as a result, were some key tenets of its foreign policy, in particular the traditional emphasis on idealism. As pragmatism took root in New Delhi, India renewed its global engagement with a rare sense of purpose and self-confidence and transformed its external relations. In Crossing the Rubicon, C. Raja Mohan narrates the story of India's successful diplomatic experimentation since the mid-1980s, one that has not been given its due."

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