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Sept. 25, 2024

Review Essay: Exploring Strategy in India

Covers for Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy and Subcontinent Adrift: Strategic Futures of South AsiaReview Essay |

Authors: Rajesh Basrur and Feroz Hassan Khan
 
Reviewed by Dr. Vinay Kaura, assistant professor, Department of International Affairs and Security Studies, and deputy director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Rajasthan, India
 
Dr. Vinay Kaura reviews two similarly named books that Kaura writes will be “an indispensable reference for South Asian security for years to come.” He praises Rajesh Basrur’s Subcontinental Drift for “incorporating domestic factors to explain Indian’s foreign policy” and provides a helpful overview of Basrur’s three case studies and “policy drift.” Kaura also overviews Feroz Hassan Khan’s book, centered on how India and Pakistan “are shaping the political order in South Asia” and appreciates Khan’s “remarkable objectivity.” Overall, Kaura offers a thoughtful and compelling account of the books, which he writes “significantly outrank others that often deal with great-power South Asian policies rather than with the two nuclear-armed neighbors locked in a hostile relationship and constantly drifting from crisis to crisis.”
 

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Keywords: international realism, neoclassical realism, Indian foreign policy, Indian domestic policy, India-Pakistan relations