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The book Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century, written by an Indian author Shashi Tharoor, is an emphasis on the Indian diplomacy and its role in the global world. The book gives us an insightful and an interesting coverage of India's foreign policies and how the policies affect the common man. It also explains that in Indian politics why policies are important to an India focused on domestic transformation. Shashi Tharoor surveys and examines the major International relationships, offers suggestion about the country's need for the required platform, along with the country's responsibilities to maintain its position globally, making his book an informative text to the people of the world. Shashi Tharoor in his book Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century highlights the requirement and importance to move from the Nehru's era of "Non alignment" to the 21st century era of "Multi-alignment," which covers the working of the Ministry of External Affairs, the parliament and the public opinion, since the Independence. It is inspiring and gives a portrait of India being ready to take a global position in the new millennium. This book is another substantial achievement by one of the finest Indian authors. The book was published in 2013, available in paperback. Key Features Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st century was written by an award-winning Indian author Shashi Tharoor. It is a great introduction for those interested in reading India's foreign policy and its evolution since Independence.
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SHASHI THAROOR p a x in d i c a India and the World of the 21st Century Contents About the Author Praise for the Book 1 Revisiting the Tryst with Destiny 2 Brother Enemy 3 A Tough Neighbourhood 4 China and India: Competition, Cooperation or Conflict? 5 India’s ‘Near Abroad’: The Arab World and the Rest of Asia 6 Red, White, Blue and Saffron: The United States and India 7 Familiar Lands and Uncharted Territories: Europe, Africa and Latin America 8 The Hard Challenge of Soft Power and Public Diplomacy 9 ‘Eternal Affairs’: The Domestic Underpinnings of Foreign Policy 10 India, the UN and the ‘Global Commons’: The Multilateral Imperative 11 ‘Multi-Alignment’: Towards a ‘Grand Strategy’ for India in the Twenty-first Century Footnote 10 India, the UN and the ‘Global Commons’: The Multilateral Imperative Selected Bibliography Acknowledgements Follow Penguin Copyright Page PENGUIN BOOKS PAX INDICA An elected Member of Parliament, former minister of state for external affairs and former undersecretary-general of the United Nations, Shashi Tharoor is the prize-winning author of twelve previous books, both fiction and non-fiction. A widely published critic, commentator and columnist, he served the United Nations during a twenty-nine-year career in refugee work and peacekeeping, at the Secretary-General’s office and heading communications and public information. In 2006 he was India’s candidate to succeed Kofi Annan as UN Secretary-General, and emerged a strong second out of seven contenders. He has won India’s highest honour for overseas Indians, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, and numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. For more on Shashi Tharoor, please see www.tharoor.in. Praise for the Book ‘Pax Indica is a great introduction for those interested in reading about India’s foreign policy and its evolution since independence’—DNA ‘[Tharoor’s] view of the world and India’s role in it is hearteningly sane; he has a diplomat’s faith in dialogue and cooperation effecting incremental benefits’—Tehelka ‘A remarkable survey of India’s international interests, covering enormous ground . . . Whatever your own views, Pax Indica will enlarge your understanding, and encourage more attention to our still hesitant and unsure