How India became territorial : foreign policy, diaspora, geopolitics / / Itty Abraham

• Autore: Abraham Itty <1960->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.54
• Soggetto topico: Territory, National - India; East Indian diaspora; Geopolitics - India
• Soggetto geografico: India Boundaries; India Foreign relations; India Politics and government 1947-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Territory and Foreign Policy -- 2 A Brief International History of the Nation-State -- 3 Diaspora as Foreign Policy -- 4 Geopolitics as Foreign Policy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination of the Indian experience during the 20th century, Itty Abraham addresses these important questions and offers a new conceptualization of foreign policy as a state territorializing practice.Identifying the contested process of decolonization as the root of contemporary Asian inter-state territorial
• Titolo autorizzato: How India became territorial
• ISBN: 0-8047-9268-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464493703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Asian security.