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The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India, Author: Vijay Gokhale; Penguin Random House India; 2021, Pp 200; Rs 265, ISBN: 978-0670095605
Akarsh Srivastava

After the success of his first book “Tiananmen Square: Making of a Protest”, Ambassador Vijay Gokhale has brought his decades of experience in dealing with our next-door neighbours to pen down how the Chinese view India when they engage in negotiations with us. Amb. Gokhale as one of the top sinologists of the country

Introduction

June 5, 2025
Tags: China, Long Game, Masood Azhar, Tiananmen Square, Vijay Gokhale, International Relations and Diplomacy
Kashi Ram Sharma, ‘The Third Birth of Confucius: Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Philosophy in the Post-Mao China’. New Delhi, Manohar, 2022. 385pp. Rs. 1,995.00
Prof K Warikoo

Kashi Ram Sharma, ‘The Third Birth of Confucius: Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Philosophy in the Post-Mao China’. New Delhi, Manohar, 2022. 385pp. Rs. 1,995.00Confucius has made a remarkable comeback in China. As the author emphasizes, “...

July 25, 2022
Tags: Buddhism, China, Chinese civilization, Mao, China, International Relations and Diplomacy
Evolving security dynamic in West Asia and India’s challenges
Huma Siddiqui

As the controversy over the disrespect to Islam and the Holy Prophet by some errant individuals of the Indian ruling party raged across West Asia , I was happy to see the book edited by veteran diplomat and West Asia expert Ambassador Anil...

June 11, 2022
Tags: Afghanistan, China, Indo-Pacific, Middle East, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Turkey, WANA region, West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy
India and EU: An Insider’s View by Bhaswati Mukherjee, New Delhi: ICWA and Vij Books, 2018, ISBN: 978-81-93759-10-3, pp. 336, Rs 995
Dr Himani Pant

Although India was among the first countries to develop ties with the European community in the 1960s, the country’s present level of engagement with the European Union (EU) is not commensurate with the existing potential. The four-year long hiatus...

June 18, 2020
Tags: Brexit, China, European Union, India-EU summits, Europe, International Relations and Diplomacy
Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier by Bertil Linter, Publishers: Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2015
Dr Cchavi Vasisht

Arthur Conolly, an intelligence officer of British East India Company, conceived the expression “great game” to define the strategic rivalry between the British and the Russian empires to acquire supremacy in Central Asia. It was further used to...

May 26, 2020
Tags: British East India Company, China, Indian Subcontinent, Sino-India, Southeast Asia, China, International Relations and Diplomacy
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative Concept, Context and Assessment by Siegfried O. Wolf, Springer, Switzerland, 2020, £88, ISBN 978-3-030-16198
Aakriti Vinayak

The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative that was officially launched in April 2015, promised to be a game changer. The economic corridor that would link Kashgar in Xinjiang to Gwadar in...

May 23, 2020
Tags: Belt and Road Initiative, China, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC, China, Neighbourhood Studies
India’s Foreign Policy: A Reader ; Edited by Kanti P Bajpai and Harsh V Pant; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2013; PP 452; Price Rs 1095
Amb Kanwal Sibal

Book Review - Perceptive but Dated Look at India’s Foreign Policy

Kanti Bajpai and Harsh V. Pant have edited this book for the benefit of graduate students studying Indian foreign policy, those teaching the subject as well as the general reader interested in its key aspects. It is a compilation of 14 essays, apart...

October 14, 2013
Tags: China, Climate Change, India-Pakistan rivalry, Indian foreign policy, US, WTO, International Relations and Diplomacy
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