India and Pakistan as Eternal Rivals

23 Abril 2018, 16:00 • Shiv Kumar Singh

Complex and hostile relationship owing to historical and political events

The Challenges of nationhood                                                                                         

Two nation-theory and continued rivalry                                                                    

External relations of both are conditioned by their historic rivalries

-                      Bellicose history

-                      Religious rivalry

-                      General antipathy

The Politics of Non Alignment / Movimento Não Alinhado

18 Abril 2018, 16:00 • Shiv Kumar Singh

India sought to follow an independent multilateral foreign policy in the first 4 decades of its independence. Forging amicable relationship with countries of the world without taking sides. Modernize not Westernize became the byword in India’s foreign policy. Non-willingness to join the Eastern Bloc or Western Bloc in the Cold War era. The core policy of NAM was that India was never permanently pro-west or pro-east.

Ex-colonial countries respond to history—by treating it as a collective trauma. As a result they have a strong sense of victimization that affects their foreign policy decisions even today (Chatterjee Miller, 2013).

The Panchasheel Agrrementa and Sino-Indian relationship

16 Abril 2018, 16:00 • Shiv Kumar Singh

What is Panchasheel Agreement? How did it shape India’s relationship with China in the first decades since independence? How China used the principle to its disadvantage? Why do some strategists in India consider 1962 Sino-Indian war as a betrayal of Panchsheel Agreement?

The evolution of Nehruvian India

11 Abril 2018, 16:00 • Shiv Kumar Singh

A different way of doing business with the outside world. Taking India on the path of friendship and peace in the region and beyond. Why Nehru was an idealist? How Nehru placed India at the centre-stage of international politics.

Europe over India

9 Abril 2018, 16:00 • Shiv Kumar Singh

Colonial project and introduction of India for the benefit of Europe.                        

Loss of autonomy and global standing. India as “the jewel in the crown”.