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Evolution of India’s Polar Policies

As the Polar Regions become pivotal to global politics, is India doing enough to keep up the momentum? This inquiry lies at the heart of Evolution of India’s Polar Policies, authored by Jawahar Bhagat and Anurag Bisen. The book is a rare academic contribution that provides an integrated assessment of India’s polar engagements in both the Arctic and Antarctica. Moving beyond conventional scientific and moralistic perspectives, it presents a distinctive blend of strategic insight and policy analysis through geopolitical, geo-economic and security-oriented lenses.

Indo-Soviet Relations

Three main points need to be kept in view in a discussion of the background against which Indo-Soviet relations have developed. First, Jawaharlal Nehru enunciated the policy of non-alignment and took the initiative for the development of Indo-Soviet friendship at a time when Stalin regarded India as a semi-colony and the late Prime Minister himself as a British stooge and when he hardly took any interest in Southern Asia.

Ayub’s Foreign Policy – From Alliance to Equidistance

The departure of President Ayub from the Pakistani scene after a decade of almost unchallenged supremacy provides us with an opportune moment for the evaluation of his contribution in the sphere of Pakistan’s foreign policy. Like every other sphere of Pakistani life, the foreign policy of Pakistan, as it has developed over the last decade, has been primarily the handiwork of President Ayub. We should disabuse our minds from the outset from the notion that President Ayub Khan’s 10 years in office had brought about any basic rethinking as far as the fundamental objectives of Pakistan’s foreign policy are concerned. These objectives remained the same during the Ayub period as they had during the pre-Ayub days.

Situating Africa in the Indo-Pacific construct the Role of India and External Powers

From an African perspective, literature on maritime security and the Indo-Pacific is very limited. Any discussion on Africa's inclusion and role in the Indo-Pacific discourse is at a nascent stage. The maritime security aspects and challenges facing African countries situated in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region have thus far not been adequately explored in the existing literature. The scholarly debates and international responses have tended to focus mostly on piracy in African waters. Piracy has sensitised both Africa and the international community to the threats off Africa, but it has also skewed perceptions about Africa's maritime landscape. Despite that, maritime security in an African context has been increasingly assuming prominence in the African security agenda. This monograph studies, analyses, and highlights the imperative for African countries in the WIO region to integrate themselves and play a constructive role in the emerging Indo-Pacific debate. It also attempts to find out the ways through which African countries in the WIO region could benefit by developing common positions on the Indo-Pacific based on shared interests and principles. Such a study is important because multilateralism matters for African states as it gives them the best chance to pool resources and ideas to influence global decisions and ensure that their voices are factored in discussions that have a bearing on the continent's growth and development.

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