Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rising India and its global governance imperatives / Harsh V. Pant -- India's rise in the global nuclear governance architecture : principles, exceptions and contradictions / Arka Biswas -- From Rio to Paris : India in global climate politics / Aniruddh Mohan -- India's pursuit of United Nations Security Council reforms / Manish S. Dabhade -- India's democracy assistance : not promoting and not exporting / Ian Hall -- India's evolving views on responsibility to protect (R2P) and humanitarian interventions : the significance of legitimacy / Kartik Bommakanti -- India and global trade governance : re-defining its 'national' interest / Mihir Sharma and Preeti Bhogal -- BRICS in India's vision for global governance / Raj Kumar Sharma -- India's subregional connectivity initiatives : re-imagining the neighbourhood / Harsh V. Pant and K. Yhome -- India and maritime governance : the Indian Ocean dynamic / Harsh V. Pant and Ivan Lidarev.

"This volume explores India's role in the global governance architecture post-Cold War. It shows how, with a rise in India's capabilities, there is an expectation from its external interlocutors that New Delhi ought to play a larger global role. As Indian policymakers re-define their engagements in the global policy matrix, the essays in the volume analyse: India's role as a challenger and a stakeholder in world politics; its uneasy relationship with Western liberal democracies; and its role in shaping new structures of global governance. The volume focuses on a host of critical issues including nuclear policy, climate action politics, India's bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, humanitarian interventions, trade governance, democracy promotion, India's engagement with other emerging powers in platforms such as the BRICS, the changing dynamics with its neighbours, and maritime governance. A timely reimagining of global politics, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations, climate change, military and strategic studies, economics, and South Asian studies"--

English.