Preliminary Structure: • Table of Contents • List of Abbreviations • List of Tables & Figures • Introduction: ‘A Rising and Assertive India’, Chris Ogden (University of St Andrews) Section A: Consolidating Pre-Eminence in South Asia • Chapter 1: ‘South Asia 2.0: The End of South Asia As You Know It’, Christian Wagner (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin) • Chapter 2: ‘India and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’, Agnieszka Nitza (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw) • Chapter 3: ‘Digital Space and Religious Intolerance in South Asia: India and Bangladesh’, Parama Sinhapalit (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) • Chapter 4: ‘The Offshore Hindu Nation: The Indian Ocean in the Middlebrow Hindu Nationalist Imagination, 1990-2019’, Sara Perlangeli (University of Oxford) Section B: Deepening Great Power Relations • Chapter 5: ‘The Elusive Settlement: India-China Negotiations Over “the Boundary Question”’, Stephen Westcott (Murdoch University, Australia) • Chapter 6: ‘India-Japan Alignment in the Indo-Pacific’, Yoichiro Sato and Astha Chadha (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University) • Chapter 7: ‘The Comparative Analysis of Russia’s and France’s Strategies Towards India and South Asia’, Aleksei Zakharov (Russian Academy of Sciences) • Chapter 8: ‘India and the United States: Friends Elsewhere, Foes at the United Nations’, (Chirayu Thakkar, National University of Singapore) Section C: Articulating a Diplomatic Vision • Chapter 9: ‘Institutionalization of Paradiplomacy in India’, Aayushi Liana Shah, Nomita Prithviraj, Vedant Mehra & Vishwesh Sundar (Leiden University, The Hague) • Chapter 10: ‘Futures in the Making: An Analysis of Indian Climate Policy Articulations’, Miriam Prys (German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg) • Chapter 11: ‘India’s Foreign Aid to the Pacific: A Strategic Tool of Cooperation?’, Teesta Prakash (Griffith University, Australia) • Chapter 12: ‘Attitudes of the Indian-American Diaspora Towards Politics in India’, Shubha Kamala Prasad (European University Institute), Maneesh Arora (Wellesley College, Massachusetts), Sara Sadhwani (Pomona College, California) • Chapter 13: ‘India’s Response to COVID-19 – A Soft Power Perspective’, Aleksandra Jaskólska (University of Warsaw) • Conclusions: ‘India’s Global Reconfiguration’, Chris Ogden (University of St Andrews) • Extended Bibliography • Index
