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India and the Anglosphere - Race, Identity and Hierarchy in International Relations (Paperback)
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India and the Anglosphere - Race, Identity and Hierarchy in International Relations (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA South Asian Series
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India has become known in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia as
'the world's largest democracy', a 'natural ally', the 'democratic
counterweight' to China and a trading partner of 'massive economic
potential'. This new foreign policy orthodoxy assumes that India
will join with these four states and act just as any other
democracy would. A set of political and think tank elites has
emerged which seek to advance the cause of a culturally superior,
if ill-defined, 'Anglosphere'. Building on postcolonial and
constructivist approaches to international relations, this book
argues that the same Eurocentric assumptions about India pervade
the foreign policies of the Anglosphere states, international
relations theory and the idea of the Anglosphere. The assertion of
a shared cultural superiority has long guided the foreign policies
of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, and this has been central
to these states' relationships with postcolonial India. This book
details these difficulties through historical and contemporary case
studies, which reveal the impossibility of drawing India into
Anglosphere-type relationships. At the centre of India-Anglosphere
relations, then, is not a shared resonance over liberal ideals, but
a postcolonial clash over race, identity and hierarchy. A valuable
contribution to the much-needed scholarly quest to follow a
critical lens of inquiry into international relations, this book
will be of interest to academics and advanced students in
international relations, Indian foreign policy, Asian studies, and
those interested in the 'Anglosphere' as a concept in international
affairs.
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