Bjp, india’s foreign policy and the “realist alternative” to the nehruvian tradition

International Politics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 215-234

  Chaulia, Sreeram S ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

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FOREIGN POLICY; NATIONAL POLITICS; PARTY POLITICS;

INDIA;

EID: 0036617464     PISSN: 13845748     EISSN: 17403898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ip.8897388     Document Type: Article

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