Varun Sahni
Biographic Data
| ID | 1086986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Varun Sahni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Varun |
| FAMILY NAME | Sahni |
| SIGNATURE | SAHNI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3130-0535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Fallacies and Flaws of Area Studies in India
Area studies programmes were established in Indian universities in two waves. The first wave emanated from an individual initiative of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955 and the second from a committee set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in April 1963, soon after India’s military defeat at the hands of China in 1962. While a large number of area studies programmes now exist in Indian universities, they have, from their earliest …
Subordinate, Subsumed and Subversive
India and the Great Powers
Six propositions drive this article. First, India's relations with the great powers as they evolve over the next two decades are going to be conditioned by India's own emergence as a great power. Second, it will take at least 15 to 20 years for a balance to re-emerge in the contemporary hegemonic system; hence, India's emergence will be simultaneous with the relative decline of the United States (US). Third, Indian policy makers and analysts need…
China–India Partnership
Asia Pacific in World Politics
India's foreign policy
In explaining the eight key factors that drive contemporary Indian foreign policy, the article provides the context for looking at India's engagement with the continent, an issue addressed in different ways by other articles in this volume. It also looks at the non‐drivers, some of which may surprise observers who may have thought them to be crucial elements of the country's foreign policy
India and the Asian Security Architecture
By building robust political and economic links with both China and the United States, India could end up playing an important catalytic role in bringing both countries together in a new cooperative Asia
The protean polis and strategic surprises
In this article, we view India not as a unitary rational actor—the conventional conceptualisation in strategic studies—but rather as a liberal democratic polis composed of the three arenas of civil society, political society and the state. We seek answers to two related questions. The first pertains to the changes that are currently underway in Indian state and society. What is the probable impact of these internal dynamics upon strategic stabili…
India and Missile Acquisition
From Security in Asia to Asian Security
Peripheric Realism versus Complex Interdependence
Not Quite British
Political studies of military institutions in Latin America have tended to lay heavy stress on their external linkages, with a good deal of emphasis being placed upon the 'differential degrees of dependence upon other countries for supplies, parts, training and equipment by the various service branches'. This particularly the case when scholars attempt to explain why two military institutions differ in their political behaviour and ideological or…
The Fallacies and Flaws of Area Studies in India
Area studies programmes were established in Indian universities in two waves. The first wave emanated from an individual initiative of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955 and the second from a committee set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in April 1963, soon after India’s military defeat at the hands of China in 1962. While a large number of area studies programmes now exist in Indian universities, they have, from their earliest …
Peripheric Realism versus Complex Interdependence
India's foreign policy
In explaining the eight key factors that drive contemporary Indian foreign policy, the article provides the context for looking at India's engagement with the continent, an issue addressed in different ways by other articles in this volume. It also looks at the non‐drivers, some of which may surprise observers who may have thought them to be crucial elements of the country's foreign policy
From Security in Asia to Asian Security
Not Quite British
Political studies of military institutions in Latin America have tended to lay heavy stress on their external linkages, with a good deal of emphasis being placed upon the 'differential degrees of dependence upon other countries for supplies, parts, training and equipment by the various service branches'. This particularly the case when scholars attempt to explain why two military institutions differ in their political behaviour and ideological or…
Not Quite British
Political studies of military institutions in Latin America have tended to lay heavy stress on their external linkages, with a good deal of emphasis being placed upon the 'differential degrees of dependence upon other countries for supplies, parts, training and equipment by the various service branches'. This particularly the case when scholars attempt to explain why two military institutions differ in their political behaviour and ideological or…
Peripheric Realism versus Complex Interdependence
India and Missile Acquisition
From Security in Asia to Asian Security
The protean polis and strategic surprises
In this article, we view India not as a unitary rational actor—the conventional conceptualisation in strategic studies—but rather as a liberal democratic polis composed of the three arenas of civil society, political society and the state. We seek answers to two related questions. The first pertains to the changes that are currently underway in Indian state and society. What is the probable impact of these internal dynamics upon strategic stabili…
India and the Asian Security Architecture
By building robust political and economic links with both China and the United States, India could end up playing an important catalytic role in bringing both countries together in a new cooperative Asia
Asia Pacific in World Politics
India's foreign policy
In explaining the eight key factors that drive contemporary Indian foreign policy, the article provides the context for looking at India's engagement with the continent, an issue addressed in different ways by other articles in this volume. It also looks at the non‐drivers, some of which may surprise observers who may have thought them to be crucial elements of the country's foreign policy
Subordinate, Subsumed and Subversive
India and the Great Powers
Six propositions drive this article. First, India's relations with the great powers as they evolve over the next two decades are going to be conditioned by India's own emergence as a great power. Second, it will take at least 15 to 20 years for a balance to re-emerge in the contemporary hegemonic system; hence, India's emergence will be simultaneous with the relative decline of the United States (US). Third, Indian policy makers and analysts need…
China–India Partnership
The Fallacies and Flaws of Area Studies in India
Area studies programmes were established in Indian universities in two waves. The first wave emanated from an individual initiative of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1955 and the second from a committee set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in April 1963, soon after India’s military defeat at the hands of China in 1962. While a large number of area studies programmes now exist in Indian universities, they have, from their earliest …
Political science (10 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (6 works) · Development economics (5 works) · China (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works)