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"India's foreign policy in the Gulf has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. From the oil boom of the 1970s to Narendra Modi's aggressive regional outreach after 2014, the density of India's interactions with the region in the form of migration, financial remittances, and trade has grown by multiple orders of magnitude. India has reconfigured its diplomatic and strategic ties with the Gulf states accordingly. This volume examines the subject from a variety of theoretical lenses and methodological approaches. It treads a range of traditional and emergent themes in India's foreign policy in the Gulf region, including India's alignment choices, its strategic partnerships in the region, the paradiplomacy of Indian states in the region, and the competing political projects shaping India's outlook on the Gulf"--
List of contents
Introduction Harsh V. Pant and Hasan .T Alhasan; Part I. India's Regional Alignments and Partnerships in the Gulf: 1. India's Gulf Policy: From Nonalignment to Multialignment Md. Muddassir Quamar; 2. India and the Gulf: Through the Prism of Neoclassical Realism Harsh V. Pant and Anant Singh Mann; 3. India's Strategic Partnerships in the Gulf: Context, Objective and Components Manjari Singh; Part II. The Domestic Dimension of India's Gulf Policy: 4. Revisiting Non-alignment: Domestic Contestation of India's Role in the Gulf Hasan T. Alhasan; 5. Indian Foreign Policy Toward the Gulf States: Strategic Narratives and Domestic Political Projects Stuti Bhatnagar; 6. India's Paradiplomacy in with the Gulf region: Challenges and Opportunities Kabir Taneja.
Summary
Studies the interests, ideas, and practices that shape India's Gulf policy, an important region in India's foreign relations. It makes an explicit effort to connect the study of India's Gulf policy with the theoretical and disciplinary debates of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis.
