India's Foreign Policy—Challenge of Terrorism Fashioning Interstate Equations

India's former Foreign Secretary and former Member of the the National Security Advisory Board Committee of Government of India presents a book on India's Foreign Policy of contemporaneous relevancefocusing momentous events in which India has been responding to the Challenge of International Terrorism and religious extremism. The author continues to observe and analyse momentous evenrts in international politics and regional developments since the summer of the year 2001. The contents of the book have an even more contemporaneous relevance and flavour, compared to the previous collection, mentioned above. The autor has dealt with the consequences of the terroristattacks in the USA and on the Indian Parliament. He has analysed the fast changing undercurrents in IndoPakistan relations and the changing charateristics of India's relations with the major powers of the world. He has also focused on developments in Afghanistan as well as in the other neighouring countries of India. Former Foreign Secretary J.N. Dixit is offering to the public an rich and varied analysis of the world around India and the manner in which India is coping with this world.

J.N. Dixit, Ambassador to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, former Foreign Secretary of India and former Member of the National Secutrity Advisory Board, has had a distinguished and varied career. After having served in the Indian Foreign Service for 36 years, from 1958 to 1994, he has been equally, if not more active, as an academic, a political colunminst and a consultant on political and security affairs during the last 8 years. This is the 8th book authored by him since 1995 and the second one which Gyan Publishing House in bringing out. The articles in this book cover developments since the summer of 2001 and have the stamp of his keen observation and analytical capacities.