The Struggle Between Political Idealism and Policy Realism: The Making of India’s Nuclear Policy

Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar-IDSA, Mr. A. Vinod Kumar's chapter ‘The Struggle Between Political Idealism and Policy Realism: The Making of India’s Nuclear Policy’ has been published in the edited volume ‘The Interface of Domestic and International Factors in India’s Foreign Policy’, published by Routledge: Taylor and Francis (March 2021).

The chapter assesses the evolution of India's nuclear policy within the larger framework of the country's foreign policy. Using various archival records, the chapter traverses through the defining phases of Indian foreign policy and evaluates the course of the nuclear policy through these phases.

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