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India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect And Prospect is a comprehensive account of how India’s foreign-policy has evolved from 1947 up until the present day. Summary Of The Book India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect And Prospect will appeal to anyone interested in India’s role in international politics. Ganguly has captured the crux of Indian foreign policies, from the period of 1947 to the present day. The book includes incisive essays on this very subject. It also includes in depth analyses of national, personal, systemic, and political factors which affect foreign policy. The chapters are presented in the level-of-analysis approach, which is a conceptual scheme frequently used in the study of international relations. The framework examines India’s foreign policies from the points of view of systemic policy-making perspectives. India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect And Prospect begins with an introductory chapter written by the editor, where he spells out all the intellectual precursors of the analysis framework, and applies this to subsequent chapters. The text contains 15 chapters or essays, along with a list of figures and tables, and suggestions for further reading. The book is organized according to India’s relations with its states, and neighbouring countries in global order. The book provides crisp accounts of developments in other countries. Some of the essays which readers can expect are The Genesis Of Nonalignment, The Evolution Of India’s Nuclear Policies, and Evolution Of India's China Policy. This text is well suited for students pursuing political science and international relations, scholars, analysts, policymakers, and journalists. This book is one of the few books to provide a complete account of the evolution of India’s foreign policy. This text is edited by a well-respected political scientist. About Sumit Ganguly Sumit Ganguly is an author, and Political Science Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has also authored Understanding Contemporary India, India Since 1980, and Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, And Limitations on Two-level Games. Ganguly is also the Rabindranath Tagore Chair of Indian Civilizations and Cultures at Indiana University. He is the founding editor of Asian Security and India Review.