The Anatomy of a Story Less Told: Nehru and the Balance of Power

Nabarun Roy

Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, 2016, vol. 3, issue 3, 337-358

Abstract: Nehru’s foreign policy is conventionally understood as being idealistic. However, there are those who claim that Nehru was motivated by realist considerations. Such a contrarian viewpoint is often made using the balance of power lens. While some use this lens explicitly, others utilize it implicitly. This study brings together such contrarian claims and tries to understand how they all ‘hang together’. In order to do so, it creates an overall balance of power framework within which scholarship arguing that Nehru was motivated by balance of power considerations is situated. Such an exercise brings rigour and clarity to the ‘Nehru the realist’ argument and enables one to better understand the nature of Nehru’s foreign policy.

Keywords: Cold War; Nehru; Indian foreign policy; balance of power; idealism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/2347797016670705

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