Vineet Thakur

Postscripts on Independence

Foreign Policy Ideas, Identity, and Institutions in India and South Africa
Herausgeber: Mallavarapu, Siddharth; Duvall, Raymond; Muppidi, Himadeep

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Produktbeschreibung

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in their initial years of liberation. Postscripts on Independence analyses and compares the making of foreign policy ideas, identities, and institutions of postcolonial India and South Africa. It shows how both countries have responded to the contradictory demands of their freedom struggles against colonialism and pragmaticchallenges of international politics. By undertaking a comparative analysis, he explores a framework to understand the foreign policymaking fears, aspirations, and international behaviour of these two states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780199479641
• ISBN-10: 019947964X
• Artikelnr.: 53300488

Autorenporträt

Vineet Thakur teaches International Relations at the Institute for History, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
Introduction
List of Abbreviations
Part One Ideas and Identities
1. Indian Foreign Policy: The Discourse of Civilizational Pacifism
2. South African Foreign Policy: A Contest for African Identity
Part Two Institutions
3. ' Panditji Knows Best': Bureaucratic Culture and the Making of the
Ministry of External Affairs
4. From Pigmentocracy to Representocracy: The Transformation of the
Department of Foreign Affairs
Conclusion
Bibliography