India needs to rethink its ties with Pakistan and China in order to transform its external environment.
Category Archives: Comparative Politics
How India Deals with its China Challenge
The Chinese have learnt that a country’s foreign and security policies abroad are only as good as the strength of its structures and systems at home
India-Taiwan Relations: Promise Unfulfilled
India-Taiwan relations lack both ambition and creativity and suffer from not a little pusillanimity.
Indian States and Foreign Policy: Lessons from Chinese Provinces
Originally published as Jabin T. Jacob, ‘China’s Provinces and Foreign Policy: Lessons and Implications for India and its States’ in Subir Bhaumik (ed.), Agartala Doctrine: A Proactive Northeast in India Foreign Policy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 253-70. Extracts Even without their rising world profiles as a starting point, it has long been a …
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Parsing Tsai Ing-wen’s Inaugural Presidential Speech
Tsai Ing-wen’s inaugural speech as President of the Republic of China suggests that Taiwan will continue to chart a course differentiating itself from mainland China.
India’s Response to China’s ‘one belt, one road’ Initiative
This article looks at India’s response to China’s OBOR and the weaknesses of that response through two specific cases of Pakistan and the Indian Ocean.
The Bandung Conference at 60: Redeeming Unfulfilled Promises
India and China as the Third World’s most populous, powerful and technologically-advanced nations, have the greater responsibility to drive Afro-Asian unity
Interpreting Prime Minister Modi’s China Approach
Originally published as ‘Interpreting Modispeak on China’, The Hindu (Chennai), 14 May 2015. As Indian Prime Ministers and political leaders go, Narendra Modi is unique in possessing some significant experience of that country before attaining office. In fact, despite – or perhaps, because of – the differences in world views and how he has gone about understanding …
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China’s ‘New Tianxia’ and the Indian Response
The fundamental weakness in India’s response to Chinese diplomatic initiatives is its lack of human resources capacity within and outside the Indian government.
Thinking about China in India 