The Evolution of India's Israel Policy

Continuity, Change, and Compromise since 1922

Bibliographic Data

ID20021393
AuthorsNicolas Blarel (0000-0002-9924-0578, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages472
Publication date2014-11-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEvolution of India's Israel Policy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199450626.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236357910
Open LibraryOL28539372M
ISBN9780199450626
LanguageEN
Citations received10

India's relationship with Israel has been one of the most sensitive and controversial issues in New Delhi's foreign policy. India first decided to recognize Israel in 1950 but deliberately deferred the establishment of diplomatic relations until January 1992. In the space of only two decades, the two countries have developed significant economic and especially defence relations. Breaking with the existing literature which has looked at India's West Asia/Middle-East policy as constant and coherent until 1992, this analysis looks at a dynamic evolution of India's position in reaction to major crises and other pivoting events in the region. Similarly, this book argues that India's position towards the Arab states and the Palestine movement has regularly evolved and can help explain subsequent changes in its Israel policy. The rationale for engaging Israel did not suddenly emerge in 1992 but was in fact the result of long-term debates within the Indian polity. This book argues that the position of Indian leaders, and especially Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was never fixed and regularly evolved in light of West Asian events. This book offers a new historical perspective to understand the foreign policy change which happened over the last two decades

Ancient history · Genealogy · Geography · Political science · History · Indian Economic and Social Development · Indian History and Philosophy · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Arab countries · Diplomatic relations · foreign relations · India · Israel · politics and government

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