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India in World Affairs: Emerging Trends is a collection of nine articles dealing with the subject matter of India’s relationship with some of the important countries of the world. It primarily deals with emerging trends of India’s foreign policy in her neighborhood and extended neighborhood. From this point of view, the book deals with India’s political, economic and strategic relationship with countries such as Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan in South Asia, Vietnam and Australia in South East and South Pacific respectively, Turkey, GCC and Israel in West Asia and Niger in African continent in post-globalization era.While India has been traditionally engaged with South Asian and other extended neighbourhood countries, it is Prime Minister Mr. Modi who has given a strategic thrust to his neighborhood policy. He realized that a country, given the dynamics of globalization, cannot emerge as a super power and secure a global recognition unless and until it demonstrates its capacity to deal with countries in its periphery on its own term. In other words, if India wishes to emerge as a global power, it has to demonstrate that it is an established regional power through the judicious application of its both soft and hard power.