ABOUT THE BOOK

This edited book titled "Emerging Trends in India's Foreign Policy' is a collaborative work in which scholars have analysed India's relations with other countries and foreign policy issues impacting India's national interests in the global politics. An analysis of foreign policy serves significantly in understanding a country's behaviour in the global politics. India and China have emerged major influential actors in the 21st century global politics. Consequently, scholars have shown interests to study India's foreign policy. This book has taken various topics for study including Rebooting the Fallacies of Indian Foreign Policy; India's Soft Power in South Asia: From Potential to Reality; Growing Relevance of Island Diplomacy in India's foreign policy and Maritime Sovereignty Issues in Indo-Pacific Region; India and the International Law: An Analysis; Indian Diaspora: A Tale of Prospering Community Amidst Growing Insecurity; Diaspora as a Strategic Asset: A Study of India's Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Policy; Analysing the Impact of SAARC on India's Foreign Policy; An Analysis of India's Interests and Strategies in Afghanistan; Cross-Border Terrorism as a National Security Threat to India; Indian Foreign Policy and Global Environmental Politics: Fine Balancing Strategic Goals with Global Environmental Justice; India - Africa Partnership in Health Sector Success & Challenges; The Galwan Valley Clash and Future of India China Relations; Emerging Trends in India-China Relations: An Analysis; Energy Security and India's Foreign Policy; Finding Synergy in transit: A Study of Principles and Praxis in North-East India and Bangladesh; India's Policy towards Post Soviet Eurasia; and India's Naval Diplomacy and Great Power Competition. This book will help to researcher, policy-makers and general public in understanding foreign policy issues and India's relation with other countries in the international political system.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shantesh Kumar Singh

Shantesh Kumar Singh is working as an associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh. Prior to this he was working as a regular faculty in the Department of Political Science at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, India. He is also an Adjunct Fellow and Associate Editor of International Association for Counter-terrorism and Security Professionals-South East Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (IACSP-SEA). Dr. Singh obtained his research degrees M.Phil/Ph.D. from the US Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Recently, he has completed his post-doctorate from United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As a visiting fellow, he has been at the School of Advanced International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, USA for a short period. He has been published few of the books and several articles in reputed refereed journals. Most recent book he published is on 'India's Foreign Policy: Continuity with difference under Modi Government' and the forthcoming book is on 'Rising Security Concerns in India: Problems and Prospects'. He has visited several countries to participate in international conferences like, US, Denmark, Norway, Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia etc.

Sudheer Singh Verma

Sudheer Singh Verma is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of South and Central Asian Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Prior to this, he was working as an Assistant Professor (ad hoc) in the Department of Political Science at Motilal Nehru College (Morning), University of Delhi, India. He owned PhD degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. He has published various research articles on themes/issues relating to international relations in peer-reviewed and refried National and International Journals and chapters in the edited books. He has also edited book titled "India in South Asia: Changing Perspectives in the 21st Century'.