Global India : the pursuit of influence and status / Edited by Christopher Ogden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: A Rising and Assertive India .--PART I: Consolidating Pre-eminence in South Asia .--1. India's New Regional Environment: South Asia 2.0 .--2. India and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor .--3. Digital Space and Religious Intolerance in South Asia: India and Bangladesh.-- 4. The Offshore Hindu Nation: The Indian Ocean in the Hindu Nationalist Imagination, 1990-2019.-- PART II: Deepening Great Power Relations.--5. The Elusive Settlement: India-China Negotiations Over 'The Boundary Question'.--6. India-Japan Alignment in the Indo-Pacific.--7. A Comparative Analysis of Russian and French Strategies towards India and South Asia.--8. India and the United States: Friends Elsewhere, Foes at the United Nations.--PART III: Articulating a Diplomatic Vision.--9. Institutionalization of Paradiplomacy in India.--10. Futures in the Making: An Analysis of Indian Climate Policy Articulations.--11. India's Foreign Aid to the Pacific: A Strategic Tool of Cooperation?.-- 12. Attitudes of the Indian-American Diaspora towards Politics in India.--13. India's Response to Covid-19: A Soft Power Perspective.--Conclusions: India's Global Reconfiguration.

"India's contemporary rise to prominence will significantly impact upon geopolitics in the coming decades and is a key pillar in the widely anticipated Asian 21st century. As India's stature continues to increase across Asia and the world, appreciating which interests and principles structure her international interaction has never been more important. Focusing upon the country's contemporary emergence as an economic, military and now diplomatic powerhouse, this Edited Book rigorously and informatively sets out the core - and wide-ranging - elements, relationships and challenges essential to conceptualising and analysing this rise. These factors relate not only to consolidating India's pre-eminence within South Asia - as the foundation of its great power claims - but also how it interacts with the world's other great powers in the guise of China, Japan, Russia, France and the United States, and how New Delhi is able to articulate its global vision on the world stage. Prestige, rivalry and leadership permeate these interactions, especially as India asserts its influence and interests concerning issues ranging from the functioning of trade in South Asia, handling border disputes and conceiving of the Indian Ocean Region to climate policy, foreign aid and managing the Covid-19 pandemic. India's future stature will depend on how it deals with these and other concerns"-- Provided by publisher.