Choices : Inside the making of India's foreign policy/ by Shivashankar Menon
By: Menon, Shivashankar.
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TextPublisher: USA: Allen Lane/Penguin Books, 2016Description: 243 p.ISBN: 9780670089239.Subject(s): India - Diplomatic relationsDDC classification: 327.54 Summary: Shivshankar Menon givesan insider's account of thenegotiations, discussions andassessments that went into themaking of five pivotal choicesin India's recent history. Theseinclude the decision not to useovert military force againstPakistan after 26/11; the civilnuclear deal with the UnitedStates; the border agreementwith China; the response to thelast months of Sri Lanka's brutalcivil war; and the thinking thatunderlay India's No First Usenuclear policy.
Drawing on his long anddistinguished career as adiplomat holding criticalpositions in India's externalaffairs ministry and in theprime minister's office, Menonconsiders each situation againstthe backdrop of India's evolvingdefinition of her place in thechanging global landscape. Hebrings out the history, politicsand principles involved, whileexamining and dissecting thereasons for the outcome.
Analytical, lucid and illuminating,Choices is an unmatched insightinto the intellectual heft offoreign policy decision-makingby one of India's most formidablediplomatic practitioners who wasactively engaged in these fivedefining moments.
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Shivshankar Menon givesan insider's account of thenegotiations, discussions andassessments that went into themaking of five pivotal choicesin India's recent history. Theseinclude the decision not to useovert military force againstPakistan after 26/11; the civilnuclear deal with the UnitedStates; the border agreementwith China; the response to thelast months of Sri Lanka's brutalcivil war; and the thinking thatunderlay India's No First Usenuclear policy.
Drawing on his long anddistinguished career as adiplomat holding criticalpositions in India's externalaffairs ministry and in theprime minister's office, Menonconsiders each situation againstthe backdrop of India's evolvingdefinition of her place in thechanging global landscape. Hebrings out the history, politicsand principles involved, whileexamining and dissecting thereasons for the outcome.
Analytical, lucid and illuminating,Choices is an unmatched insightinto the intellectual heft offoreign policy decision-makingby one of India's most formidablediplomatic practitioners who wasactively engaged in these fivedefining moments.
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