India and the Gulf

Harsh V. Pant is Professor of International Relations with King's India Institute at King's College London and Vice President – Studies and Foreign Policy at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is also the Director of Delhi School of Transnational Affairs at Delhi University and a Non-Resident Fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. He is the editor of New Directions in India's Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis, published by the Press in 2017. His current research is focused on Asian security issues and his teaching interests are Asia-Pacific security issues, nuclear proliferation, South Asian security, and Indian foreign policy. Hasan T. Alhasan is researcher at the King's India Institute, where he works on contemporary Indian foreign policy in the Gulf. He is Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and served as a senior analyst on foreign policy and national security at the Office of the First Deputy Prime Minister of Bahrain. He has addressed a variety of government organisations and think tanks, including the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chatham House, the Royal United Services Institute, the Conservative Middle East Council and the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. He is also a regular participant in Track II dialogues on Gulf regional security and commentator on Middle Eastern affairs.

Introduction Harsh V. Pant and Hasan .T Alhasan; Part I. India's Regional Alignments and Partnerships in the Gulf: 1. India's Gulf Policy: From Nonalignment to Multialignment Md. Muddassir Quamar; 2. India and the Gulf: Through the Prism of Neoclassical Realism Harsh V. Pant and Anant Singh Mann; 3. India's Strategic Partnerships in the Gulf: Context, Objective and Components Manjari Singh; Part II. The Domestic Dimension of India's Gulf Policy: 4. Revisiting Non-alignment: Domestic Contestation of India's Role in the Gulf Hasan T. Alhasan; 5. Indian Foreign Policy Toward the Gulf States: Strategic Narratives and Domestic Political Projects Stuti Bhatnagar; 6. India's Paradiplomacy in with the Gulf region: Challenges and Opportunities Kabir Taneja.