India and Central Asia: The Mythmaking and International Relations of a Rising Power (Library of International Relations) - Hardcover

Emilian Kavalski is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Western Sydney and author of Extending the European Security Community (I.B.Tauris, 2008).

""In this theoretically sophisticated and path-breaking book Emilian Kavalski lays bare the cognitive foundations of Indian elite thinking about India’s foreign policy, role in the world and policies beyond the Subcontinent and raises probing questions concerning the true extent of India’s power and the meaning of its rise. Anyone interested in Indian foreign policy and/or Central Asia should? read this book and ponder its implications."" --Stephen J. Blank, National Security Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College, author of Natural Allies: Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (2005)

""This book combines two topical and important themes. One is the rise of India as a significant emerging power. The other is the return of Central Asia as the scene for Great Power rivalries, the old nineteenth century ‘Great Game’ renewed in new geo-economic settings of the twenty-first century. ...The stakes are high in this energy-rich region, both for India, and the wider international system. Kavalski does a good job in bringing out both aspects of the situation, India and Central Asia, for the reader."" --David Scott, Brunel University, author of The Chinese Century: The Challenge to Global Order (2008)

""Exceedingly well referenced with an abundance of Indian sources... the prospective reader can expect a deeper understanding of India’s foreign policy"" -- Kristopher White, Asian Affairs