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The India–Japan “special strategic and global partnership” has been described as one that will define the Indo-Pacific and shape the Asian century. This introductory chapter introduces the reader to a brief history of the growing relationship, defines the hitherto inadequately explored concept of “strategic partnership” in a post-alliance world, explains the objectives, design and relevance of the book and outlines the distinguishing features of the chapters to follow.
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See, e.g., C. Raja Mohan, “The Case for Alliance,” Indian Express, September 14, 2017, http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-case-for-alliance/. From China ’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs came a more critical comment following the same line of thinking. See Sutirtho Patranobis, “China Has a Message for India and Japan : Form Partnership, Not Alliance,” Hindustan Times, September 14, 2017, http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/china-has-a-message-for-india-and-japan-form-partnership-not-alliance/story-HEygMJnZgSZOHxdvhrWaHI.html.
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Joint Statement on India and Japan Vision 2025: Special Strategic and Global Partnership Working Together for Peace and Prosperity of the Indo-Pacific Region and the World, Ministry of External Affairs India , December 12, 2015, http://www.mea.gov.in/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl/26176 (accessed April 25, 2016).
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Kiyoshi Takenaka, “Japan and India Vow to Boost Defence Ties during Summit,” Reuters, September 1, 2014, http://in.reuters.com/article/japan-india-investment-modi-idINKBN0GW15520140901 (accessed April 26, 2016).
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David Brewster, “The India–Japan Security Relationship: An Enduring Security Partnership?” Asian Security, 6, 2 (2010), pp. 95–120.
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C. Raja Mohan, Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India ’s New Foreign (New Delhi: Viking/Penguin, 2003), p. 263.
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Christopher W. Hughes, Japan ’s Re-Emergence as a ‘Normal’ Military Power, Adelphi Paper (London: IISS and Routledge, 2005), pp. 68–369.
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Richard Fontaine, “Where Is America in Japan and India ’s Plans for Asia?” The National Interest, December 28, 2015, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/where-america-japan-indias-plans-asia-14741 (accessed May 1, 2016).
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See, e.g., Mark Beeson, “Hegemonic Transition in East Asia? The Dynamics of Chinese and American Power,” Review of International Studies, 35, 1 (January 2009), pp. 95–112; Aaron L. Friedberg, A Contest for Supremacy. China , America, and the Struggle for Mastery in Asia (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011); Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East (New York: Public Affairs, 2008).
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On hegemony and challenge, see Robert S. Gilpin, War and Change in World Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
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The apparent “imbalance” between their nuclear arsenals matters little. For a more detailed discussion on the irrelevance of nuclear balances, see Rajesh Basrur, “Nuclear Deterrence: The Wohlstetter-Blackett Debate Revisited,” Working Paper No. 271, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, April 15, 2014, https://www.rsis.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/rsis-pubs/WP271.pdf. On US–China economic interdependence , see Stephen S. Roach, “China ’s Big Sticks,” Project Syndicate, January 25, 2017, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-china-protectionism-retaliation-by-stephen-s--roach-2017-01.
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See, e.g., Rajesh M. Basrur, “Modi’s Foreign Policy Fundamentals: A Trajectory Unchanged,” International Affairs, 93, 1 (January 2017), pp. 7–26; Feng Zhongping and Huang Jing, “China’s Strategic Partnership Diplomacy: Engaging with a Changing World,” Working Paper No. 8, European Strategic Partnerships Observatory, Brussels, June 2014, http://strategicpartnerships.eu/publications/chinas-strategic-partnership-diplomacy-engaging-with-a-changing-world/ (accessed February 10, 2015); Natalie M. Hess, “EU Relations with ‘Emerging’ Strategic Partners: Brazil, India and South Africa,” Focus, 2, 2012, http://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publication/eu-relations-with-emerging-strategic-partners-brazil-india-and-south-africa (accessed February 10, 2015); Vidya Nadkarni, Strategic Partnerships in Asia: Balancing Without Alliances (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010); Prashant Parameswaran, “Explaining US Strategic Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific Region: Origins, Development and Prospects,” Contemporary Southeast Asia , 36, 2 (2014), pp. 262–289; Thomas S. Wilkins, “‘Alignment,’ Not ‘Alliance’—The Shifting Paradigm of International Security Cooperation: Toward a Conceptual Taxonomy of Alignment,” Review of International Studies, 38, 1 (2012), pp. 53–76. On the India–Japan relationship, see Yogesh Joshi and Harsh V. Pant, “Indo-Japanese Strategic Partnership and Power Transition in Asia,” India Review, 14, 3 (July–September 2015), pp. 312–329.
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Takenori Horimoto and Lalima Varma, eds., India–Japan Relations in Emerging Asia (New Delhi, 2013); Arpita Mathur, India–Japan Relations: Drivers, Trends and Prospects, RSIS Monograph No. 23, 2012; Rohan Mukherjee and Anthony Yazaki, eds., Poised for Partnership. Deepening India–Japan Relations in the Asian Century (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016); Shutaro Sano, “Japan–India Development and Security Cooperation Should Be Steady, Not Rushed,” Asia Pacific Bulletin, 382, May 31, 2017; N. S. Sisodia and G. V. C. Naidu, eds., India–Japan Relations: Partnership for Peace and Security in Asia (New Delhi: Promilla & Co and Bibliophile South Asia , 2006).
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Basrur, R., Kutty, S.N. (2018). Conceptualizing Strategic Partnerships. In: Basrur, R., Kutty, S. (eds) India and Japan. Politics of South Asia. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8309-9_1
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