Includes index

1. Introduction
Snapshot 1: Indian foreign and security policy structures

Part I: India and major powers

2. India and the US: an emerging partnership
3. India and China: an uneasy relationship
4. India and Russia: convergence across time
5. India and the European Union: a relationship in search of meaning
Snapshot 2: The BRICS fallacy

Part II: India and its neighborhood
6. India and Pakistan: a road to nowhere
7. India and Bangladesh: a difficult partnership
8. Nepal and Sri Lanka: India struggles to retain its relevance
9. India and Afghanistan: a test case for a rising power
Snapshot 3: India and Bhutan

Part III: India’s extra-regional outreach
10. India in East and Southeast Asia: ‘acting’ east with an eye on China
11. India in Africa and Central Asia: part of the new ‘great game’
12. India and the Middle East: a fine balance
13. India in the Indian Ocean: colliding ambitions with China
Snapshot 4: India and South America

Part IV: India and the global order
14. India as a regional security provider: from activism to forced diffidence
15. India and the global nuclear order: a quiet assimilation
16. India and multilateralism: from the periphery to the centre
Snapshot 5: India’s tryst with terrorism