Publication

Apr 2005

This paper analyzes the strategic policies of India. The author seeks to answer if a rising India will repeat the pattern of all previously rising powers since the Napoleonic Era, by attempting to achieve regional hegemony. The paper explains that even though India has never consciously and deliberately pursued a grand strategy, its historical experience and geo-strategic environment have substantially conditioned its security behavior and desired goals.

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Author Manjeet Singh Pardesi
Series RSIS Working Papers
Issue 76
Publisher S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS)
Copyright © 2005 Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS)
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