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  • Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order
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  • edited by Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Bruce Jones
  • 2013
  • Published by: Brookings Institution Press
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India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized, even as geopolitical shifts create both opportunities and challenges. With critical interests in almost every multilateral regime and vital stakes in emerging ones, India has no choice but to influence the evolving multilateral order. If India seeks to affect the multilateral order, how will it do so? In the past, it had little choice but to be content with rule taking—adhering to existing international norms and institutions. Will it now focus on rule breaking—challenging the present order primarily for effect and seeking greater accommodation in existing institutions? Or will it focus on rule shaping—contributing in partnership with others to shape emerging norms and regimes, particularly on energy, food, climate, oceans, and cyber security? And how do India's troubled neighborhood, complex domestic politics, and limited capacity inhibit its rule-shaping ability?

Despite limitations, India increasingly has the ideas, people, and tools to shape the global order—in the words of Jawaharlal Nehru, "not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially." Will India emerge as one of the shapers of the emerging international order? This volume seeks to answer that question.

Table of Contents

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  1. Front Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. 2-5
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Part I: Introduction
  1. 1. A Hesitant Rule Shaper?
  2. pp. 3-22
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  1. Part II: Perspectives on Multilateralism
  1. 2. The Changing Dynamics of India's Multilateralism
  2. pp. 25-42
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  1. 3. India and Multilateralism: A Practitioner's Perspective
  2. pp. 43-56
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  1. 4. India as a Regional Power
  2. pp. 57-72
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  1. Part III: Domestic and Regional Drivers
  1. 5. The Economic Imperative for India's Multilateralism
  2. pp. 75-94
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  1. 6. What in the World Is India Able to Do? India's State Capacity for Multilateralism
  2. pp. 95-114
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  1. 7. India's Regional Disputes
  2. pp. 115-130
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  1. 8. From an Ocean of Peace to a Sea of Friends
  2. pp. 131-154
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  1. Part IV: Multilateral Policy in Practice
  1. 9. Dilemmas of Sovereignty and Order: India and the UN Security Council
  2. pp. 157-176
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  1. 10. India and UN Peacekeeping: The Weight of History and a Lack of Strategy
  2. pp. 177-196
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  1. 11. From Defensive to Pragmatic Multilateralism and Back: India's Approach to Multilateral Arms Control and Disarmament
  2. pp. 197-216
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  1. 12. Security in Cyberspace: India's Multilateral Efforts
  2. pp. 217-236
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  1. 13. India and International Financial Institutions and Arrangements
  2. pp. 237-260
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  1. 14. Of Maps and Compasses: India in Multilateral Climate Negotiations
  2. pp. 261-280
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  1. 15. India's Energy, Food, and Water Security: International Cooperation for Domestic Capacity
  2. pp. 281-302
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  1. 16. India and International Norms: R2P, Genocide Prevention, Human Rights, and Democracy
  2. pp. 303-318
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  1. 17. From Plurilateralism to Multilateralism? G-20, IBSA, BRICS, and BASIC
  2. pp. 319-340
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 341-342
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 343-358
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  1. Organization, Back Cover
  2. pp. 368-369
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