The Evolving Indo-Baltic Relations

Historical Connection, Political Ties and Economic Cooperation
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-981-9261-74-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This edited volume investigates how India’s transformation as an economic market and political power, shapes its global perspective, particularly about its engagement with strategically significant regions like the Baltic states. By employing comparative frameworks between India and the Baltic, the volume aims to clarify both shared and divergent experiences regarding border dynamics, regional pressures from assertive powers, and the navigation of global alliances. It offers a multidisciplinary platform, addressing economics, international relations, culture, and ethnography, to explore how India's socio-political changes and global rise relate to the Baltic Sea region.

It brings together scholars and people involved in policymaking from India, the Baltic and other parts of the world to examine the opportunities and challenges in deepening Indo-Baltic cooperation across security, economics, and culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhutia, Kikee Doma

Ranjan, Amit

Süld, Elo

Makarychev, Andrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: India-Baltic Relations in the Changing Global Landscape.- Part I: Historical and Cultural Perspectives.- Chapter 2: Introduction on India-Baltic Relations: Early Estonian Perceptions of India.- Chapter 3: Localising the ‘Indo-European’: Towards a Cultural History of Indian Interest in Baltic Neo-Paganism/s.- Chapter 4: From Handwritten Letters to Street Art: Gandhi and Tolstoy’s Ideals in Estonia’s UrbanLandscape.- Chapter 5: Finding Kallenbach in India.- Part II: Migration and Socio-Political Dynamics.- Chapter 6: Indian Migrants in Lithuania as an Emerging Migration State.- Chapter 7: Baltic to Nordic from the Prism of History: India’s Growing European Miles.- Chapter 8: Synergising India’s ties with the Baltic states amidst geopolitical flux.- Chapter 9: Borderlands and Their People in the Context of Imperial Aspirations. Some Lessons from the Line of Actual Control in Chang-Thang Areas of India and China for Estonia.- Part III: Geopolitics and International Relations.- Chapter 10: India’s Geopolitical Balancing Act: Navigating Relations with Russia, the Ukraine War, and Engagement with the Baltics.- Chapter 11: Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Is India Just a Friendly Counterbalance against China?.- Chapter 12: Between a Rock and A Hard Place: The USA, Russia, India Strategic Triangle and its implications for the Baltic.- Chapter 13: Conclusion: The Nordic–Baltic Region and the EU–India Rapprochement.

Über Autor(innen)

Kikee Doma Bhutia is a PostDoc fellow at Centre for Buddhist and South Asian Studies at Ghent University Belgium.

Dr. Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.

Dr. Elo Süld is the Head of Asia Center at the University of Tartu and an Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Dr. Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu.