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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.

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