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  • Indian Foreign Policy

    The Politics of Postcolonial Identity from 1947 to 2004

    door Priya Chacko ...
    Serie series Interventions
    The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India’s foreign and security policies as representational practices which produce India’s identity as a postcolonial nation-state helps to illuminate the conditions of possibility in which foreign policy is made.Spanning the period between 1947 and 2004, ... Meer lezen

    65,94 €

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    The book provides a detailed historically-based analysis of the origin, evolution and potential resolution of the civil conflict in Sri Lanka over the struggle to establish a separate state in its Northern and Eastern provinces. This conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is one of the world’s most intractable contemporary armed ... Meer lezen

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