CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Arévalo, Kelly Johana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Indian Way: A Polyvalent Rising Power |
| Summary | This dissertation focuses on India’s behavior as a rising power, drawing attention to its relative peaceful rise, to explain why has India charted an emerging course very different from its Eurasian counterparts, Russia and China? India has adopted a foreign policy that differs from the general expectations of orthodox International Relations (IR) theories- those focusing on power transitions and international institutions- that assume India eventually would pursue the modification of the current global order- a revisionist behavior- or perhaps would slightly adjust the institutional order, maintaining the status quo. The three-level analysis of India’s foreign policy from 2001 to 2018, shows that India is taking different pathways depending on the level and realm of geopolitical scope. I argue that India is a polyvalent rising power, demonstrating that India pursued a reactive behavior at the local (South Asia) level, at the regional (Indian Ocean Region) level it was characterized by its engagement, while at the global level its role was active. This dissertation aims to contribute to the understanding of India’s rise and its foreign policy, as well as to offer a different perspective to IR studies on rising powers by showing India’s relevance for the construction of a broader literature. |
| Supervisor | LaRoche, Christopher |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/arevalo_kelly.pdf |
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