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Full list of academic sources used to build the course India and the World | South Asia in International Relations

Books

- David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan and Srinath Raghavan (eds), *The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy* (Oxford University Press, 2015)
- David M. Malone, *Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy* (Oxford University Press, 2011)
- T. V. Paul, *The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi* (Oxford University Press, 2024)
- Shivshankar Menon, *Choices: Inside the Making of India's Foreign Policy* (Brookings Institution Press, 2016)
- S. Jaishankar, *The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World* (HarperCollins, 2020)
- C. Raja Mohan, *Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's New Foreign Policy* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
- Srinath Raghavan, *War and Peace in Modern India* (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
- Rahul Sagar, *To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views of International Politics* (Columbia University Press, 2022)
- Tanvi Madan, *Fateful Triangle: How China Shaped US-India Relations During the Cold War* (Brookings Institution Press, 2020)
- Sumit Ganguly, *Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947* (Columbia University Press, 2001)
- T. V. Paul, *The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World* (Oxford University Press, 2014)
- Ayesha Jalal, *The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics* (Harvard University Press, 2014)
- Vipin Narang, *Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict* (Princeton University Press, 2014)
- Rohan Mukherjee, *Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions* (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- David Brewster, *India's Ocean: The Story of India's Bid for Regional Leadership* (Routledge, 2014)
- Vijay Prashad, *The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World* (The New Press, 2007)
- Christophe Jaffrelot, *Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy* (Princeton University Press, 2021)
- Christophe Jaffrelot, *Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India* (Hurst, 2024)
- Ramachandra Guha, *India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy*, revised edition (Picador, 2019)
- Atul Kohli, *Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India* (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- Navnita Chadha Behera (ed.), *International Relations in South Asia: Search for an Alternative Paradigm* (Sage, 2008)

Journal articles and reports

- Kate Sullivan de Estrada, "What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative", *International Affairs* 99(2), 2023
- Ian Hall, "India's China strategy after Galwan: minilateral and multilateral soft balancing in the Indo-Pacific", *International Affairs* 101(5), 2025
- Arzan Tarapore, "Zone balancing: India and the Quad's new strategic logic", *International Affairs* 99(1), 2023
- Raj Verma, "Multi-alignment and India's response to the Russia-Ukraine war", *International Politics* 61(5), 2024
- Yogesh Joshi and Rohan Mukherjee, "The Cost of Restraint: India's Divergent Responses to China and Pakistan as Nuclear Rivals", *International Security* 50(4), 2026
- Sumit Ganguly and Spenser A. Warren, "Escalation Risks Rising? Airpower in Kargil and Pahalgam", *The Washington Quarterly* 48(3), 2025
- Sumitha Narayanan Kutty and Walter C. Ladwig III, "Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India's Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel", *International Studies Quarterly* 69(1), 2024
- Vineet Thakur and Ladhu Ram Choudhary, "How a Nazi occupied India's first chair in International Relations", *Review of International Studies* 51(2), 2025
- Tej Pratap Singh, "Operation Sindoor: Redefining India's Strategic Posture", *India Quarterly* 82(2), 2026
- Takshashila Institution, *India's Path to Power: Strategy in a World Adrift* (2021)
- Andrew F. Cooper, "Between Rewards and Risks: India as Host of the 2023 G20 Summit", *India Quarterly* 79(4), 2023
- Milan Vaishnav (ed.), *India and a Changing Global Order: Foreign Policy in the Trump 2.0 Era* (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2026)
- Congressional Research Service, *India-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress*, CRS Report R47597 (updated 4 May 2026)
- Tanvi Madan, *Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission* (17 February 2026)
- International Crisis Group, *After the "Golden Era": Getting Bangladesh-India Ties Back on Track*, Asia Report No. 353 (2025)
- Vrinda Sahai, *Managing Divergence: India's BRICS Presidency in 2026* (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2026)
- Enrico D'Ambrogio, *EU-India Relations: Time for a New Boost?*, EPRS Briefing PE 769.496 (European Parliamentary Research Service, 2025)
- Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy (ed.), *A Decade of 'Neighbourhood First': Perspectives from South Asia*, ORF Special Report No. 248 (Observer Research Foundation, 2025)
- Sanchayeeta Rajkhowa and Shubhrajeet Konwer, "India-Maldives Relations: Diplomatic Gridlock and the 'Muizzu Template'", *India Review* 25(2), 2026
- Congressional Research Service, *Nepal*, CRS In Focus IF10216 (7 April 2026)
- Shivam Shekhawat, *An Assessment of the Taliban's Foreign Policy*, ORF Issue Brief No. 890 (Observer Research Foundation, 2026)
- Harindra B. Dassanayake and Rajni Gamage, *Sri Lanka's NPP Government: From System Change to Structural Compliance* (Ifri, 2025)
- Shahar Hameiri and Umesh Moramudali, "Competing or complementary? Chinese loans and international bonds in Sri Lanka's default", *International Affairs* 101(5), 2025
- Milan Vaishnav (ed.), *The BJP in Power: Indian Democracy and Religious Nationalism* (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2019)
- Pradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma, *Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India* (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Aqil Shah, "Pakistan's New Military Tutelage", *Journal of Democracy* 37(2), 2026

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