The article unravels the globalizing process in the context of cricket in India. It traces the process of the game’s diffusion from the colonial period to the liberalized era. In the colonial context, it demonstrates the role of the state apparatus in facilitating this end. Although the...

This article explores Lyndon B. Johnson administration’s nonproliferation policy toward India in light of China’s nuclear program. It argues that although the administration prioritized nonproliferation, it was unwilling to undertake the necessary steps to prevent an Indian...

This article attempts a comparative study of India’s troubled borderlands, that is, Kashmir and the Northeast region. Both the regions are marked by geographical isolation, insurgent/secessionist movements, heavy militarization and external intervention. Yet, the situation in the...

For India, her ‘beneficial bilateralism’ with Bhutan cannot be taken for granted on the assumption of Bhutan’s perpetual dependence on India. Taking into consideration Bhutan’s strategic location, its local level economic viability along the borders, trade potentials,...

Climate change, commonly known as global warming, has threatened the very survival of the planet earth. Being a global problem it requires global actions but international actions to combat the climate cataclysm have been largely unsuccessful due to countries’ self-interested behavior....

The traditional concept of security is too narrow and includes military security alone, and the state was its only and ultimate reference point. Advocates of non-traditional security threats shifted the reference point of security to individual and the ultimate objective of both security and...

Ever since the declaration of the ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan in 2001, New Delhi has heavily invested in humanitarian assistance, development projects and nation-building activities in that country with a view to cultivate a mutually beneficial relationship with Kabul and thereby...

This article offers a concise, though not exhaustive, intellectual history of International Relations (IR) as a formal academic discipline. It begins with the backdrop of the discipline’s emergence in the aftermath of World War I, and a critical account of the ‘first wave’ of...

India faces a hostile geo-strategic environment of having two adversarial nuclear neighbors on her western and northern borders, namely Pakistan and China who share a collusive military partnership aimed at stultifying India’s rise as a pre eminent Asian power. The Kargil conflict of...

Its ubiquity notwithstanding, contemporary India’s ‘great power’ discourse does not appear to reflect the concerns of the Indian multitude. Recognizing this condition and approaching the discourse as a political phenomenon that has real effects, this article makes the...