India, Global Powers and West Asia : Political and Economic Dynamics
Contents: 1. Relations with Israel and India\'s great power aspirations/P.R. Kumaraswamy. 2. Impact of India\'s partnership with Israel: major trends in the post-cold war period/K.M. Sajad Ibrahim. 3. Turkish Indian relations after the cold war: perspectives and policies/Berdal Aral. 4. Incongruent triangle: China factor in India GCC ties/N. Janardhan. 5. China as an economic rival of India in the Gulf/Javed Ahmad Khan. 6. India and the GCC trade and Geopolitical engagements/Faisal Ahmed. 7. Resurgent Russia and the Gulf/Prasanta Kumar Pradhan. 8. India\'s energy requirements, natural gas and the Persian Gulf/Pranav Kumar. 9. US-Iran rivalries in the region and its implications for India/M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi. 10. Containment and competition between US and Iran in the Caspian Sea region: implications for India/Pankaj Kumar. Index.
"India\'s economic interests and its self imagination as an emerging global power have assumed a higher priority in defining India\'s foreign policy and security goals since early 1990s. This has guided the Indian policy makers to intensify its engagements with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other GCC countries around which Indian foreign policy in the region revolves today in the political and economic sense of the term. This book deals with evolving political and economic dynamic and interactions of India with global and regional powers in West Asia, with particular focus on Persian Gulf in the post-cold War period. It examines India\'s multi-dimensional relations with global powers such as USA, Russia, China and regional powers and organisation like Iran, Israel, Turkey and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) respectively." (jacket)
"India\'s economic interests and its self imagination as an emerging global power have assumed a higher priority in defining India\'s foreign policy and security goals since early 1990s. This has guided the Indian policy makers to intensify its engagements with Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other GCC countries around which Indian foreign policy in the region revolves today in the political and economic sense of the term. This book deals with evolving political and economic dynamic and interactions of India with global and regional powers in West Asia, with particular focus on Persian Gulf in the post-cold War period. It examines India\'s multi-dimensional relations with global powers such as USA, Russia, China and regional powers and organisation like Iran, Israel, Turkey and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) respectively." (jacket)
