ALL GOVERNMENTS CLAIM ETERNAL consistency and success. Some even claim omniscience. And yet the essence of governance is choice. Choice involves uncertainty, risk, and immediacy; those who must make the choices operate in the con temporary fog that envelops events rather than from the certainty and clarity that come with time, distance, and refl ec- tion. Nowhere is this more true than in foreign policy decisionmaking. Diplomacy offers choices, and those choices must be negotiated with other sovereign actors not subject to a par tic u lar state’s customs, laws, and restraints. The chapters that follow explore fi ve instances in which the Indian state made choices and entered into negotiations with long- term implica- tions for India’s foreign policy. They examine the options that were avail- able at the time, why the choices were made in the way they were, and the consequences of those choices. But the reader should be aware that these fi ve instances are neither a complete nor necessarily an archetypical set of choices; rather, they were selected because they were the ones with which I was directly associated
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Kumar, P. (2017). Choices: inside the making of India’s foreign policy. International Affairs, 93(4), 998–999. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix105
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