The New Geo-Economics of a "Rising" India

State Transformation and the Recasting of Foreign Policy

Bibliographic Data

ID3985703
AuthorsPriya Chacko (0000-0002-4636-1683, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume45
Issue2
Pages326-344
Publication date2015-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00472336.2014.948902
OpenAlexW2082164324
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited42

With a focus on India, and drawing on critical scholarship on geo-politics and geoeconomics and “relational” state theories, this article examines the ways in which ideational and material processes of state transformation have shaped India’s international engagement in different periods. Prior to 1991, geo-political social forms linked to a national developmentalist state project shaped India’s engagement with global and regional multilateralism and the nature of this engagement fluctuated according to shifts in the legitimacy and viability of this state project. The erosion of the developmentalist state project from the 1970s laid the path for a deeper shift in the national social order in the 1990s with the recasting of statehood wherein India’s future was thought to be best secured through policies of economic openness, growth and competitiveness. This shift in India’s state project has given rise to new forms of global and regional engagement that are distinct to older forms of international engagement and reflect and further processes of state transformation in India. This is illustrated through a case study on energy policy

Geopolitics · Legitimacy · Multilateralism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Indian Economic and Social Development · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law

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