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India: Emerging Power Paperback – September 30, 2002

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For years, Americans have seen India as a giant but inept state. That negative image is now obsolete. After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three major states of Asia. Its pluralist, secular democracy has allowed the rise of hitherto deprived castes and ethnic communities. Economic liberalization is gathering steam, with six percent annual growth and annual exports in excess of $30 billion. India also has a modest capacity to project military power. The country will soon have a two-carrier navy and it is developing a nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching all of Asia. This landmark book provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since India's nuclear tests, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements. Stephen P. Cohen examines the domestic and international causes of India's "emergence," he discusses the way social structure and tradition shape Delhi's perceptions of the world, and he explores India's relations with neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as the United States. Cohen argues that American policy needs to be adjusted to cope with a rising India—and that a relationship well short of alliance, but far more intimate than in the past, is appropriate for both countries.

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377 pages
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English
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Brookings Institution Press
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September 30, 2002
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6 x 0.89 x 9 inches
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0815715013
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978-0815715016
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Thomas Mitchell

Introducing India as an Asian Power

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2013

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This book written in 2000 by veteran South Asian specialist Stephen P. Cohen concentrates on introducing India as an emerging Asian power. Since this book appeared there have been several books that have discussed India alongside China and Japan as one of the great powers of Asia. This book briefly discusses Indian domestic politics but its focus is on India's foreign policy: its relations with Pakistan, China, the United States, and with other South Asian countries. Cohen begins with a discussion of the various sources of India's foreign policy philosophy: the sub-continental focus of the British Raj, the pacifism of Mahatma Gandhi, the non-aligned anti-colonialism of Nehru, and the realism of his daughter and successor, Indira Gahdhi. Cohen maintains that most Indian officials have a mixture of these disparate tendencies in their heads. In addition to the chapters on India's external relations he has two chapters on India as a military power: as a conventional military power and as a new nuclear power in balances of terror with both Pakistan and China. I recommend this as a good starting point for understanding modern India.

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Izaak VanGaalen

India's Quest for Great Power Status

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2005

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Stephen P Cohen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and is their resident expert on South Asian strategic studies. Not only has he lived in Dehli for a number of years, he speaks Hindi and he has some unique insights as to how foreign policy is shaped inside the government based on his contacts with some of the key individuals. I have heard Cohen speak (English) on several occaisions and was impressed with the breadth and depth of his knowledge of South Asia.

In this book, Cohen details some of the world views of India's leadership during the 1990s. In 1996, the Bharatiya Janata Party came to power and along with it came a new outlook on India's role in the world. The old school were the Nehruvians of the Congress Party (left-centrist), whose outlook was mainly anticolonial, socialist central planning and advocacy of third-world solidarity against Cold War blocs. The new "center-right realist" school, represented by Jaswant Singh and KC Pant realized the world had changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The new world order was shaped by economics, and from economic strength comes military power. The new government knew that it had to open its economy to international competition in order to achieve the growth rates needed to lift their population out of poverty. No small task since about half of the world's poor are in India. They found China's example encouraging.

The BJP opened up their foreign policy establishment to input by outsiders such as journalists, academics, and even military personnel. The old Congress Party was always very secretive about their decision making process for fear of a military coup. It was also amazing that the BJP was tolerant of alternative views since some of its coalition partners were so intolerant - think of Shiv Sena, led by the notorious Bal Thackeray. Today the BJP is no longer in power, the Congress Party is back in power, but it is no longer the same Congress Party - it too now is a believer in benefits of open markets.

The liberalization of the economy naturally brought India and the US closer together. America's support of Pakistan has always been a sore point in the relationship, but India now reluctantly accepts the fact that a stable Pakistan is in everyone's best interest, given the nuclear saber rattling that took place in 1998.

The US is by far India's largest trading partner, and the impact that the two countries (the world's two largest democracies) have had on each other is profound. Many of the high-tech startups in Silicon Valley have been created by Indian engineers and funded by Indian money. The Indian-American community of 2 million is the single most affluent ethnic group in the US. Many go back to India with their American experiences and recreate the successes. There are now more IT scientists and engineers in Bangalore than in Silicon Valley.

Geostrategically, India will remain bogged down as a regional power as long as the problem of Kashmir festers, and by extension the problem of Pakistan. According to Cohen, India must put this problem behind it before it can become a great power. It is important for America to be evenhanded in its relations with both countries: for Pakistan is a frontline state in containing Islamic fundamentalism and India is a counterbalance China's growing military power. It is also important that India sets the example of democratic success to counter China's authoritarianism.

Cohen has written an excellent book that will be instructive not only to policymakers but to other readers as well. One Indian reviewer has called the book refractive, as seen through the prism of American eyes; it is to our distinction that the eyes were so learned and perceptive.

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Neel Aroon

great resource on India since 47

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2002

As India became an independent nation in 1947, it became the world's second largest country in population and the world's larges democracies. Cohen in India:Emerging Power looks at how India has been advancing since 1947. Cohen looks at the different influences on India such as non-alliance, the Nehru view, and the Gandhi view. Cohen also deals deals with India's interactions with other countries such as the Soviet Union and later Russia, United States, Africa, China and other South Asian countries. Cohen also looks at some of the more well known issues of India such as its military. It relied on Soviet Aid for a long time but was never able to get as much as it wanted. Cohen looks at American influences on the Indian military and its desire to become an arms exporter. Cohen also looks at India's nuclear program and its relations with Pakistan. He goes through the history of the conflict and how nuclear weapons. It also deals with INdia's relations to the United states and about how the two countries can work togheter.

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Jonathan Baum

The rise of India

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014

A somewhat dated but still immensely relevant overview of India's strategic and security issues, especially as viewed from an American standpoint. Professor Cohen is one of the best scholars of Indian strategy and politics, and this guide is both thorough and well-written. India has been through many incarnations (so to speak) and has security problems both foreign (especially Pakistan and China) and domestic. Yet now that America's war in Afghanistan is winding down and the Indians are freeing up their economy to allow greater growth, the role of India is likely to increase in importance both locally and worldwide. This book is a fine introduction to how and why those chances could take place.

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