US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy

Harsh V. Pant is Professor of International Relations at King's College London, UK. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C., USA. His current research is focused on Asian security issues. Yogesh Joshi is a research scholar at the Center for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He has been a fellow at Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, USA, and is currently an international PhD partnering fellow at Defence Studies Department, King's College London, UK.

"This pithy and readable book examines India's responses to China's increasingly assertive approaches to its neighbours and to the US pivot to the Asia-Pacific, signaled by Barack Obama in late 2011. ... it provides one of the best short accounts of India's evolving approach to the changing strategic balance in the region." (Professor Ian Hall, Australian Institute of International Affairs, June, 2016)

• 1. Introduction 2. Power Transition in Asia and Indian Foreign Policy 3. Indo-US Ties in the Age of 'Pivot' 4. India's China Challenge 5. The Indo-Japanese Strategic Partnership 6. India and Regional Balance of Power in Asia 7. Conclusion