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Article: Diplomacy of India: Then and Now.(Book Review)
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- International Journal on World Peace
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- March 1, 2003
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Harish Kapur New Delhi: Manas Publications, 2002 399 pages, no price indicated
Harish Kapur, emeritus professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, has written a first-rate study of the making of Indian foreign policy, following up on his earlier India's Foreign Policy 1947-1992: Shadows and Substance.
Kapur looks in particular at the environments that India inherited at birth--domestic, regional and global--for as he notes, all states "have to adapt their foreign policy to the changing realities of the planet--realities which often escape them, and over which they hardly have any control." What control they do have, however, is ...