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091476
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The early decades of India's independence were characterized by a broad engagement in international affairs, with the country taking a leadership role in international organizations and regimes. This diplomatic internationalism contrasted starkly with India's autarchic economic policies, as the country became more economically insular in its first decades. The growing mismatch between India's ambitions to be a major actor in global affairs and its declining economic influence had become evident by the 1980s.
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091482
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2009.
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From relative obscurity in the late 1980s when it was first discussed in the UN General Assembly,1 the issue of climate change has come, less than two decades later, to be characterized as "the defining human development challenge for the twenty-first century."2 For the years that the international community has engaged on climate change, it has the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC)3 and its Kyoto Protocol,4 to show for it. These agreements however do not represent a truly effective and universal solution to address climate change. The emission reduction commitments made under these agreements are inadequate5 and inadequately implemented.6 And, the fundamental premises on which they are based are deeply contested. At the heart of the contestation is a divergence of views between developing and industrial countries on who should bear responsibility, in what measure, and under what conditions to address climate change.
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091478
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2009.
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India is a fast-rising power in today's world. Over the past decade India's policy of liberalization has greatly enhanced its economic power, and its policy of nuclearization has greatly enhanced its military power. Keen observers of global affairs also often note India's rising "soft power." Soft power guru Joseph Nye counts India's liberal democratic regime type as a real advantage over China in the two Asian giants' competition for global attractiveness and influence.
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091479
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2009.
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I sincerely believe that in the modern world the relationship between Governments is increasingly mediated through and influenced by the relationship between civil society and the business community. It is on the foundation of people-to-people and business-to-business relations that we in Government try to build State-to-State relations.
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091481
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2009.
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The great Himalayan rivers of South Asia, particulary the Ganges and Brahmaputra, have been the subject of five decades of discussion between governments of the region.
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091480
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2009.
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Among the many factors that drive a country's foreign policy, the least understood is the role of public opinion. In any democracy, there is a presumption of some link, however weak and indirect, between public policy and public opinion, in so far as the latter represents voter preferences. But public opinion's links to foreign policy are more tenuous. In the Indian case there have been very few attempts to gauge public opinion on foreign policy issues, let alone to examine its effects on the country's foreign policy. This paper measures public opinion on Indian foreign policy through a survey of more than two hundred thousand households (the largest ever in India) and lays out some hypotheses on whether (and how) public opinion might effect Indian foreign policy in the future.
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091477
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2009.
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This paper is rumination on a theme: How does India's sense of itself shapes its foreign policy? A reflective piece on this theme might be doomed from the start: aligning a conception of national identity with foreign policy might be the equivalent of trying to explore the relationship between an uncertain object and a moving target. Foreign policy and concomitant strategic thinking is so often the product of so many contradictory pulls and pressures. To discern a design in it may be more an act of retrospective reinterpretation than a description of actual intent. This is particularly true in the case of India, where the gap between aspiration and ability, and a deeply contentious domestic politics, make the articulation of long term objectives an extremely tricky business. Foreign policy is also an area where the gap between a nation's self image and the reality of its actions is often so pronounced that linking the two might seem an odd enterprise indeed.
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