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▪️Title: #ChoicesInsideTheMakingOfIndianFP
▪️Genre: GeoPolitics
▪️Published: 2016
▪️Author(s): @ShivshankaMenon
▪️Print by: @BrookingsInst
▪️Length: 166
▪️Cost: $26
▪️Description: On India’s most critical FP decisions by former foreign secretary and NSA.
About the author @ShivshankaMenon
Book description by @amazon
The Geopolitics in the 21st Century 15 books series, published under the auspices of the Order from Chaos project at Brookings @BrookingsInst, will analyze the major dynamics at play and offer ideas and strategies to guide critical countries and key leaders on how they should act
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Choice involves uncertainty, risk, & immediacy; those who must make the choices operate in contemporary fog that envelops events rather than from certainty and clarity that come with time, distance, & reflec- tion. Nowhere is this more true than in foreign policy decisionmaking.
Reforms, such as dismantling the crippling set of government regulations known as licence-permit system, and opening India to the world from 1991 on, saw a series of actions that coincided with the high noon of the globalized world economy between 1989 and 2008.
All three, Rao, Vajpayee, & Singh thought deeply about FP before entering office, & brought intellectual capital to task of remaking India’s policies to fit changed situation. They were intellectuals who enjoyed playing with concepts, ideas,& options that new FP challenges posed.
The decisions examined in this book cover India’s relationships with the 🇺🇸 , 🇨🇳 , 🇵🇰 , and 🇱🇰 , and India’s nuclear posture. They relate to a period when India’s engagement with world was redrawn: when relations with the 🇺🇸 were transformed & relations with 🇨🇳 were stabilized.
A boundary is a line agreed upon by both states & normally delineated on maps & on ground by both states. A border is a zone between two states, nations,or civilizations. It is frequently also an area where peoples,nations, & cultures intermingle &are in contact with one another.

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