India - from regional to world power

Kapur provides an in-depth account of India's role in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

He shows how the approach laid down by Nehru and followed by his successors (an approach that included nuclear self-restraint, the search for friendly relations with Pakistan and China, seeking the high ground in moral and diplomatic spheres, and giving a lead to the non-aligned Third World) has been replaced.

The new, more self-confident and assertive approach of this text is based on India's growing economic strength and has a more strategic and pro-Western orientation.

Meticulous in approach, this book discusses this change, shows how it has come about, and explores how India's role in world politics might develop going forward.