India's Foreign Policy and Regional Multilateralism [electronic resource] /
Michael, Arndt.author.
The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Regional Multilateralism and Norm Localization; Theoretical underpinning: norm diffusion in international relations and norm localization; Norm localization; Conditions and catalysts for the process of norm localization; The global norm of regional multilateralism; The concept of norm sublimation; Methodology and research questions; The scheme of the book; 2 India's Cognitive Prior: Ideas, Norms, and the Evolution of India's Foreign Policy
Traditional norms and values of India's foreign policy: the idealist traditionThe framework of India's foreign policy; Major stages in the development of India's foreign policy 1947-2012: from moralism to pragmatism; 3 Regional Multilateralism in South Asia; Asian regional conferences: early concepts of regional multilateralism from 1949 to 1961; The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC); 4 Regional Multilateralism Beyond South Asia; The Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC)
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMST-EC)The Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) and the BCIM Regional Cooperation Forum; Asian regional multilateral fora: the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) and the Asian-African Sub-Regional Organizations Conference (AASROC); 5 Conclusions: Competing Regionalism and Panchsheel Multilateralism in South Asia and Beyond; The explanatory power of norm localization and competing regionalism in South Asia and neighbouring regions; Recurring patterns in regional multilateralism in South Asia
Regional multilateralism-India's next 'tryst with destiny'?Policy recommendations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation.
ASEAN.
International organization.
Ethnology—Asia.
International relations.
Asia—Politics and government.
Political science.
Diplomacy.
International Organization.
Asian Culture.
International Relations.
Asian Politics.
Political Science.
Diplomacy.