David M. Malone - The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy

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DAVID M. MALONE, C. RAJA MOHAN,

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SRINATH RAGHAVAN

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THE Editors would like to thank Dominic Byatt, Commissioning Editor for Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford University Press whose idea this volume was and who has been unfailingly supportive of it and of them. We are also very grateful to his associates Olivia Wells, Sudhakar Sandacoumar, Jo North, and Joy Mellor all of whom managed challenging aspects of production superbly.

This project would never have been possible without the active encouragement and generous funding of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada and the Centre on Global Governance Innovation (CIGI), both with deep links to India. In particular, we would like to thank Bruce Currie Alder and Anindya Chatterjee of IDRC and Rohinton Medhora, the President of CIGI, for taking such a strong interest in the project.

We are very grateful to the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi, its President, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and its Board, for agreeing to host this project, no small undertaking. The Observer Research Foundation (ORF), also of New Delhi, was also consistently supportive. Within CPR, Dr Pallavi Raghavan (also an author in the volume) with great dedication took on the task of project coordination. She was ably assisted at various times by Sandeep Bhardwaj (CPR), Swetha Murali (CPR), Kalathmika Natarajan (CPR), Saawani Raje (CPR), Rishika Chauhan (ORF), and Ritika Passi (ORF).

We thank the ORF for hosting a very pleasant and productive interaction over dinner between the authors who attended the project workshop in January 2014 and the leading lights of the foreign policy community in the capital. We are especially grateful to the then National Security Adviser, Shivshankar Menon, who joined the dinner conversation on Indias foreign policy with remarks and an extended response to a wide range of questions and comments.

David Malone is very grateful to the Council of the United Nations University (UNU) and, in particular, to its Chairman, Dr Mohamed Hassan, for encouraging and supporting him to pursue independent research and writing during his tenure at UNU. He is also much indebted to Alexandra Ivanovic, Nancy Roberts, Lee Schrader, and Anthony Yazaki for their assistance with proofs and copy edits of the volume under considerable time pressures.

Above all, we are grateful to our generally very busy authors who humoured us through several drafts of their excellent contributions.

D.M.M., C.R.M., S.R.

January 2015

DAVID M. MALONE, C. RAJA MOHAN, AND SRINATH RAGHAVAN

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SIDDHARTH MALLAVARAPU

SNEH MAHAJAN

RAHUL SAGAR

PALLAVI RAGHAVAN

ANDREW B. KENNEDY

SURJIT MANSINGH

SRINATH RAGHAVAN

C. RAJA MOHAN

SUMIT GANGULY

LIGIA NORONHA

ROHAN MUKHERJEE

RANI D. MULLEN

PAUL STANILAND AND VIPIN NARANG

RUDRA CHAUDHURI

TANVI MADAN

RAJIV KUMAR

MANOJ JOSHI

AMITABH MATTOO AND RORY MEDCALF

LATHA VARADARAJAN

DEVESH KAPUR

JAIDEEP A. PRABHU

SANJAYA BARU

STEPHEN P. COHEN

ALKA ACHARYA

RAJESH BASRUR

SREERADHA DATTA AND KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN

S. D. MUNI

V. SURYANARAYAN

EMILIAN KAVALSKI

TALMIZ AHMAD

AMITAV ACHARYA

DAVID SCOTT

ASHLEY J. TELLIS

CHRISTIAN WAGNER

RAJAN MENON

VARUN SAHNI

P. R. KUMARASWAMY

KUDRAT VIRK

CONSTANTINO XAVIER

POORVI CHITALKAR AND DAVID M. MALONE

MANU BHAGAVAN

JASON A. KIRK

SAMIR SARAN

PRADEEP S. MEHTA AND BIPUL CHATTERJEE

RAJESH RAJAGOPALAN

NAVROZ K. DUBASH AND LAVANYA RAJAMANI

SUNIL KHILNANI

E. SRIDHARAN

Alka Acharya is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Since 2012, she has taken charge as Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi, for a five-year period.

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.