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From a Sub-Continental Power to an Asia-Pacific Player: India’s Changing Identity.
- Source :
- India Review; Jul-Sep2014, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p187-211, 25p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This article aims to argue that identity is an important variable in determining the motivational disposition of the Indian state’s external security behavior. It offers a constructivist explanation to India’s increasing engagement with the Asia-Pacific region and argues that India’s deepening engagement with the region is a reflection of its desire to craft a new external identity for itself – the identity of an “Asia-Pacific player.” The desire for an “Asia-Pacific identity” is in part precipitated by Indian political elite’s perception of a crisis in India’s external identity immediately after the end of the Cold War, along with its intuitive desire for recognition within the international system. This ongoing identity shift offers to explain many visible changes in India’s post-Cold War foreign security behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14736489
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- India Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97454200
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14736489.2014.937266