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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818662603321

Autore

Vivekanandan Jayashree

Titolo

Interrogating international relations : India's strategic practice and the return of history / / Jayashree Vivekanandan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-136-70386-1

0-203-81397-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

War and international politics in South Asia ; ; 4

Disciplina

327.54

Soggetti

International relations

Postcolonialism

India Foreign relations Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Interrogating International Relations; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Temporal Journeys: Reorienting International Relations; 2. India's Strategic Practice: Theory Meets History; 3. The Making of Mughal Grand Strategy: Material and Ideational Influences; 4. Strategies of Conciliation and Coercion: Two Case Studies; 5. New Directions in International Relations; Appendix; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream international relations today, and problematises the several tropes that have come to typify the strategic histories of post-colonial societies such as India. Questioning a range of long-held cultural representations on India, the book challenges such portrayals and underscores the centrality of context and contingency in any cultural explanation of state behaviour. It argues for a historico-cultural understanding of power and critiques IR's tendency to usher in a selective 'return of history'.