03148cam a22004578i 4500 21889584 US-DLC 20251109114215.0 210202t20212021nyu b 001 0 eng 2021004391 9780367553449 (Hardback) 9780367557973 (Paperback) 9781003095194 (eBook) 21889584 au eng au rda pcc a-ii--- Alfaisal Main Library GN492 .B45 2021 Beitelmair-Berini, Bernhard, author. India's grand strategy and foreign policy : strategic pluralism and subcultures / Bernhard Beitelmair-Berini. First Ediition. 2021 2106 New York : Routledge, 2021. 200 pages cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- How to delineate India's strategic pluralism? -- Strategic culture as an IR concept -- India's strategic culture debate -- Cleavage theory and international relations -- India's grand strategic cleavages -- A case study: India's Israel policy -- The subculture-cleavage model: A heuristic tool to grasp strategic pluralism? "The book explores the competing grand strategic worldviews shaping India's foreign and security policies by analyzing the interaction between normative modern International Relations theories and vernacular concepts of statecraft and strategy. To assess the diverse competing ideas which characterize India's debates on grand strategy and foreign policy, the author presents the subculture-cleavage model of grand strategic thought. This innovative analytical framework reveals the complexities of India's strategic pluralism and offers the building blocks for a systematic analysis of grand strategy formation. The book demonstrates that the strategic paradigms, or strategic subcultures, are marked by contending ideas of Indian statehood and civilization, held by policymakers and the informed public, and are a result of ideology-driven perceptions of the country's strategic environment. The author argues that the apparent hybridization and stretching of modern and traditional concepts of international relations in India has become a widespread feature of Indian foreign policy to meet the needs of state formation and nation-building. A unique approach to organising and understanding the debates and discourse in Indian strategic thinking, the book will be of interest to specialists and students in the field of International Relations, political theory, South Asian Studies and India's foreign and security policy"-- Political anthropology India. Strategic culture India. Pluralism Political aspects. Subculture. India Foreign relations. Print books. local 4 lcc BOOKS 607854 607854 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2025-11-09 0 GN492 .B45 2021 AU00000000020906 2025-11-09 11:43:47 215.00 2025-11-09 BOOKS