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How India Became Territorial - Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics (Hardcover)
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How India Became Territorial - Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Asian Security
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Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight
even when the territories in question are economically and
strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to
international relations, political geography, international law,
and social history, and based on a close examination of the Indian
experience during the 20th century, Itty Abraham addresses these
important questions and offers a new conceptualization of foreign
policy as a state territorializing practice.
Identifying the contested process of decolonization as the root of
contemporary Asian inter-state territorial conflicts, he explores
the political implications of establishing a fixed territorial
homeland as a necessary starting point for both international
recognition and national identity--concluding that disputed lands
are important because of their intimate identification with the
legitimacy of the postcolonial nation-state, rather than because of
their potential for economic gains or their place in historic
grievances.
By treating Indian diaspora policy and geopolitical practice as
exemplars of foreign policy behavior, Abraham demonstrates how
their intersection offers an entirely new way of understanding
India's vexed relations with Pakistan and China. This approach
offers a new and productive way of thinking about foreign policy
and inter-state conflicts over territory in Asia--one that is
non-U.S. and non-European focused--that has a number of
implications for regional security and for foreign policy practices
in the contemporary postcolonial world.
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