India's Rise as an Asian Power
![]() 296 pp., 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9781626161108 (1626161100) 296 pp., 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 9781626160743 (1626160740) eBook ISBN: 9781626161481 E-Inspection Request E-Inspection October 2014 LC: 2014000936 Sales Rights: Not for sale in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan South Asia in World Affairs series EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews |
India's Rise as an Asian Power
Nation, Neighborhood, and Region
Sandy Gordon
India's Rise as an Asian Power examines India's rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region. Instead of a straight-line projection based on traditional measures of power such as population size, economic growth rates, and military spending, Sandy Gordon's nuanced view of India's rise focuses on the need of any rising power to develop the means to deal with challenges in its domestic, neighborhood (South Asia), and regional (continental) spheres. Sandy (Alexander) Gordon is a visiting fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University (ANU). Previously, he worked as an academic at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Wollongong University, and at ANU, from where he retired as professor in 2011. As a public servant, he worked in Australia's Office of National Assessments; AusAID; as executive director of the Asian Studies Council; and as head of intelligence, Australian Federal Police. He is the author of several books. T.V. Paul, Series Editor
Reviews
"Presents a useful, and perhaps necessary, reality check to those willing to overlook or wish away many of India's complications and contradictions."—Contemporary Southeast Asia "This excellent book combines scholarly analysis based on a wealth of empirical material with policy prescriptions. The conceptual innovation is the use of neighborhood, not region, for South Asia, and region for the larger Asian and Indian Ocean space."—Eswaran Sridharan, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Governance and the "Hybrid Inheritance" 2. Enmeshed Dissonance in South Asia 3. South Asian Dissonance, Global Factors, and Global Power Competition 4. Wider Regional Implications 5. The Government Response: Domestic Governance and Security 6. External Strategies and Challenges: From Neighborhood to Region Conclusion Bibiliography Index |