Harsh V. Pant
Abstract It is almost a conventional wisdom now that the centre of gravity of global politics has shifted from Europe to the Asia–Pacific in recent years with the rise of China and India, gradual assertion by Japan of its military profile, and a significant shift in the US global force posture in fa...
Harsh V. Pant
Abstract India-Russia is a unique bilateral relationship in the Indian foreign policy matrix that refuses to become amarginal one, and that was onlymarginally affected by the unprecedented structural changes ushered in by the end of the ColdWar in the early 1990s. This article examines the main fact...
Harsh V. Pant
The interests of India and Bangladesh have been diverging for some years now, bringing the two countries to what is probably the nadir of their bilateral relations. This article examines the factors shaping these relations and argues that a host of structural and domestic political variables are pul...
Sunil Dasgupta, Stephen P. Cohen
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. See C. Raja Mohan, "India and the Balance of Power," Foreign Affairs 85, no. 4 (July/August 2006); also see the writings of Harsh V. Pant, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/authors/581/harsh-v-pant. For a more comprehensive examinati...
Anand Kumar
Abstract This article explores the objectives of China's engagement in the Maldives and how the current administration of the country is responding to it. The article also looks at how the Maldives has been used by major powers in the past. On the basis of these analyses, it envisages the path that ...
Harsh V. Pant
Of all India’s relations, that with Pakistan has been the most problematic and highly charged, over the longest period of time, a relationship accurately described by Inder Gujral as a ‘tormented’ one. 1 Such has been this ongoing, generally negative relationship that for each country the other now ...
Harsh V. Pant
Bangladesh was formerly East Pakistan, one of the five provinces into which Pakistan was divided at its initial creation, when Britain's former Indian Empire was partitioned in August 1947. The new nation quickly achieved international recognition, causing Pakistan to withdraw from the Commonwealth ...
Adam Boulton
236 SAIS REVIEW Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World. By Edward W. Said. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981, 218 pp. $10.95 ($3.95 paper). The emotion has passed now that the hostages are home, but it seems that no significant reassessment of Islam has...
Harsh V. Pant
South Asia comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, in some contexts, neighbouring countries to the west and east. It consists of seven core countries, namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. The countries of the region share topographical and climatological c...
Harsh V. Pant
This chapter examines the growing role of China in South Asia over the last decade and its regional impact, especially on Indian foreign policy priorities. For a long time, only Pakistan among India's neighbours used China to further its strategic agenda regarding India. China-Pakistan collusion on ...
Harsh V. Pant
The principal nationalist movement that had opposed British rule was the Indian National Congress. India became independent as a dominion, with the British monarch as head of state, represented by an appointed Governor-General. A series of audacious terrorist attacks perpetrated by Kashmiri separati...
Harsh V. Pant
This chapter examines India's ties with Bangladesh as they have evolved over the last two decades.
Harsh V. Pant
Harsh V. Pant
New Delhi has long viewed South Asia as India's exclusive sphere of influence and has sought to prevent the intervention of external powers in the affairs of the region. The notion of a Monroe Doctrine similar to the one proclaimed for the Western Hemisphere by the United States (US) in the nineteen...
Harsh V. Pant
Harsh V. Pant
India and Bangladesh are historically, geographically, and culturally tied to each other to an extent that try as they might they cannot escape this reality and so have to inevitably deal with each other. India's role in the establishment of an independent Bangladesh in 1971 meant that for few years...