Krishnan Srinivasan is a former Indian Foreign Secretary. James Mayall is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Cambridge University and fellow of the British Academy. Sanjay Pulipaka is Senior Fellow at the Nehru Museum and Library and adviser to ICRIER, New Delhi.

An edited volume, it contains 14 essays by well-known scholars, each dealing with a specific country or region, which assesses the role of values in the formulation of foreign policy. Besides, the Introduction, composed by the three editors, brings out the theoretical aspects, drawing general conclusions from the findings of the contributors. It is an excellently designed framework to discuss a rather complex subject. . . . this work is invaluable. It explores the philosophy of international politics in contemporary times. It should immensely interest everyone who is curious about what really drives a nation’s foreign policy. It may inspire others to produce volumes that are even broader in scope.

• AbbreviationsForewordRobert D. KaplanIntroduction: Values and Foreign PolicyKrishnan Srinivasan, James Mayall, Sanjay Pulipaka1. Values in European Foreign Policy: Defending the Enlightenment in Troubled TimesJames Mayall2. Values and European Foreign Economic Policy: Ideas, Institutions and InterestsFredrik Erixon3. Values in German Foreign Policy: How Changes of Course Created Lasting ValuesAmit Das Gupta4. Values in US Foreign Policy: ‘America First’ Meets the Pro-Democracy StateWilliam J. Antholis5. Overview: Reflections on Values in Western Foreign Policy: From the Liberal World Order to Antithetical ValuesBruno Maçães6. Values in Russian Foreign Policy: Soviet Values, Revisionism and President PutinHari Vasudevan and Tatiana Shaumyan7. Islamic Values in Foreign Policy: Perspectives on ‘Secular’ Turkey and ‘Islamic’ IranMehmet Ozkan and Kingshuk Chatterjee8. Values in Indian Foreign Policy: Lofty Ideals Give Way to Parochial PragmatismKrishnan Srinivasan9. V