India’s Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).
T.V. Paul
New Book
The Unfinished Quest
- Offers a comprehensive understanding of the rising power phenomenon in the globalized yet changing world order
- Focuses on the status motivation of India in the context of the US-China rivalry as well as India’s importance as the “swing power” that can mitigate China’s aggressive rise in the Indo-Pacific region
- Explores the ways in which status competition has entrenched the China-India and India-Pakistan rivalries
- Argues that the key challenge for obtaining a sustained global status is India’s low human development indices