CONTENTS


Part I: Globalisation, India and WANA: Theoretical Dimensions

1. Hamid Ansari: India and West Asia in the Era of Globalisation

2. Achin Vanaik: National Interest: A Flawed Notion-Explaining the Shift in Indian Foreign Policy in the Age of Neo-liberal Globalisation and its Implications for WANA Region

3. A.K. Ramakrishnan: Neo-liberal Globalist: Transformations in India's Foreign Policy: Implications for West Asia and North Africa

Part II: Globalisation, India and WANA: Energy Security Dimensions

4. Gulshan Dietl: Transnational Gas Pipelines: Global Context, Indian Experience

5. Shebonti Ray Dadwal: Can West Asia Retain its Position in the Oil Market? Implications for India

Part III: Globalisation, India and Gulf: Economic Dimensions

6. Javed Ahmad Khan: India and Arab Gulf's Look East Policy: Strengthening Economic Relations since 1995

7. N. Janardhan: GCC-India Relations: What Next?

Part IV: Globalisation, India and WANA: Political Dimensions

8. Chintamani Mahapatra: American Hegemony in WANA Region: Challenges for India

9. Qamar Agha: Indo-Arab Relations: The Pakistan Factor

Part V: Globalisation, India and WANA: Cultural and Diasporic Dimensions

10. Aftab Kamal Pasha: India’s Cultural Diplomacy in West Asia and North Africa

11. Prakash C. Jain: Globalisation and Indian Diaspora in West Asia and North Africa: Some Policy Implications

12. El Sayed Mekkawi: The Changing Dimensions of India’s Image in the Arab World

Part VI: Globalisation, India and North Africa: Bilateral Dimensions

13. Jagdish P. Sharma: Fostering Ties with the Arab-African World

14. John Cherian: The Ongoing Struggle for Independence: Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and Indo-Algerian Ties

15. Sebastian N: Social Development, State and Globalisation: A Comparative Study of Egypt and India

Part VII: Globalisation, India and Israel-Palestine Conflict

16. P.R. Kumaraswamy: Contextualising Israel in India’s Middle East Policy

17. Bansidhar Pradhan: Globalisation and the Shift in India's Palestine Policy

18. Sujata Ashwarya Cheema: Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process in the ‘New Middle East’: Can India Have a Role to Play?

Index

India’s foreign policy posture in recent years, particularly towards the region of West Asia and North Africa (WANA), has been a subject of intense debate. India’s growing relationship with the US and Israel, and its ‘lukewarm stand’ on Iraqi crisis and Iranian nuclear issue has been seen as a fundamental shift in the Indian foreign policy exercise. Critics have accused the succeeding Indian governments during the past one and half decades of abandoning its ‘independent’ foreign policy, of deviating from Nehruvian national consensus in foreign policy matters, and towing the pro-American line. Others have argued that the radical shift in the orientation of Indian foreign policy in terms of its pro- American tilt bears the mark of “realism” and “pragmatism” that is dictated by the demand of globalisation. Therefore, at a broader level, this book seeks to capture the emerging orientation of Indian state vis-à-vis the region of WANA in the context of globalisation. In particular, it examines the political, economic, cultural, security and diasporic dimensions of the evolving relationship between India and countries of WANA in the context of globalisation.