“As Michel Foucault has famously stated,'knowledge is not made for understanding; it is
made for cutting'. In this spirit The Edkins–Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits …

Africa is said to be rising, turning a definitive page in its history, heralding new and exciting
possibilities for the continent. This discourse maintains that with upsurge in economic growth …

India today looms large globally, where it hardly loomed at all twenty years ago. It is likely to
be a key global actor throughout the twenty-first century and could well emerge soon as one …

The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers
of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India's foreign and security policies as …

This article examines India's emerging approach to foreign policy: multialignment. It argues
that since the mid-2000s India has developed multialignment as a means of achieving what …

This book presents a new theoretical framework through which to understand the role of
regional powers in creating and maintaining regional security orders. As a result of the …

In recent years Indian governments, whether led by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) after
1998 or by the Congress Party after 2004, have woven the term extended neighborhood into …

Ambitions for India to enact the role of vishwaguru or 'world teacher'are a conspicuous
feature of foreign policy discourse under contemporary Hindu nationalist rule in India. This …

Democracy promotion is an established principle in US and EU foreign policies today, but
how did it become so? This comparative study explores the promotion of democracy …

India seems to qualify as a soft power by default with her democratic tradition, Mahatma
Gandhi with his concept of non-violence and peaceful conflict mediation as national hero …