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Power & Diplomacy
In this critically acclaimed book on India’s diplomatic history, Zorawar Daulet Singh takes us back to the first phase of the Cold War in Asia as India navigated a series of geopolitical crises to eventually emerge as a major regional power in the 1970s.
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एशिया का रुतबा लौटाते भारत-चीन
पश्चिमी विचारकों का मानना है कि उभरती हुई ताकतें प्रतिस्पद्र्धा करती ही हैं। और, जब वे पड़ोसी होती हैं, तब तो उनमें शत्रुता की आशंका भी कहीं अधिक होती है। पिछले करीब डेढ़ सौ वर्षों से भारत व उससे पहले के ब्रिटिश भारत और चीन व उससे पहले के छिंग चीन ने पश्चिमी विचारकों को सही साबित किया है।...
From the Author
Zorawar Daulet Singh is an award winning author, historian and foreign affairs analyst based in New Delhi, India. He is a co-founder of the Northcap University, a State Private University, located in Gurugram, Haryana and is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, one of the oldest think tanks in New Delhi. He is also a member of the advisory council of the India International Centre (IIC). He was previously a fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. Daulet Singh holds a PhD in international relations from King’s College London.
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Power Shift
Just like seven decades ago, when the dramatic re-emergence of India and China from their traumatic encounter with colonialism followed by a war between them in 1962 transformed this region’s geopolitical landscape, the equation of the two countries is once again poised to influence the future course of Asia. Wider interests demand that both countries craft a tenuous co-existence and stabilise a fragmenting world order.
Zorawar Daulet Singh’s ‘Powershift’ is a timely addition to the literature on a subject of compelling urgency.Amitav Ghosh: The Wire
Zorawar Daulet Singh has presented policy prescriptions that are realistic and hard-headed and backed his arguments with a rigour and detail which is often missing in the current Indian policy discourse on China.Manoj Joshi: The Tribune
Power & Diplomacy
The notion that a monolithic idea of ‘nonalignment’ shaped India’s foreign policy since its inception is a popular view. In Power and Diplomacy, Zorawar Daulet Singh challenges conventional wisdom by unveiling another layer of India’s strategic culture.
The author’s conceptual framing and methodological finesse reveal an unparalleled analytical incisiveness; this, along with the novelty of the argument, makes Power and Diplomacy a stellar classic.Shounak Set: Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Daulet Singh adds depth to the otherwise oversimplified description of Indian foreign policy as a procession from Jawaharlal Nehru’s idealism to Indira Gandhi’s realism.Lydia Kulik: World Affairs