India in the world order : searching for major power status / Baldev Raj Nayar, T.V. Paul.

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Introduction: India and its search for a major power role -- Major power status in the modern world: India in comparative perspective -- The constraints on India: international and domestic -- India´s grand strategy for a major power role, 1947-1964 -- Strategy in hard times: the long march for capabilities, 1964-1990 -- After the Cold War: adaptation, persistence, and assertion, 1991-2001 -- Conclusions: India and the emerging international order.

´Two scholars come together to examine India´s relationship with the world´s major powers and its own search for a significant role in the international system. Central to the argument is India´s belief that the acquisition of an independent nuclear capability is the key to obtaining such status. The book details the major constraints at the international, domestic and perceptual levels that India has faced in this endeavor. It concludes, through a detailed comparison of India´s power capabilities, that India is indeed a rising power, but that significant systemic and domestic changes will be necessary before it can achieve its goal. India in the World Order examines the prospects and implications of India´s integration into the major-power system in the twenty-first century. Given recent developments, the book is extremely timely. Its incisive analysis will be illuminating for students, policymakers, and for anyone wishing to understand the region in greater depth.´--BOOK JACKET.