This new and revised, second edition of the Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and much-needed overview of relations between the two nations since 2020, marked by the Galwan Valley clash and ongoing border tensions.
This new and revised, second edition of the Routledge Handbook of China–India Relations provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and much-needed overview of relations between the two nations since 2020, marked by the Galwan Valley clash and ongoing border tensions.
Arguing for sustained leadership and a nuanced, scholarly understanding of both societies in order to foster stability and cooperation amid persistent rivalry, the book explores the bilateral relationship’s scale, historical depth, and strategic complexity, emphasizing its global significance. Reflecting the consequential and multifaceted nature of the bilateral relationship, the book brings together twenty-seven original contributions by a wide range of experts in the field. Chapters demonstrate that China–India relations are more far-reaching and complicated than ever before, marked by both conflict and cooperation. Following a thorough introduction by the Editors, the handbook is divided into seven parts which combine thematic and chronological principles into the following categories: historical overviews; strategic culture; core bilateral conflicts; military relations; economy and development; relations with third parties; and China, India, and global order. Chapters offer comparative analyses that highlight convergences and divergences in governance, strategic culture, and global order conceptions.
This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in International Relations, Asian Politics, Global Politics, and China–India relations.
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Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Taking stocka multi-disciplinary view of ChinaIndia
relations
Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho, and Manjari Chatterjee Miller
1 Reflections on comparing China and India
Tarun Khanna
PART I
Historical overviews
2. China and India pre-1939
Rudolf G. Wagner
3. Relations between the Republic of China and India, 19371949
Tansen Sen
PART II
Culture and strategic culture: Constructing the other
4. Shooting the messengers: The downward slide in China-India media
relations, 20082024
Ananth Krishnan
5. China in Indias strategic thought
Ian Hall
6. India in Chinas strategic thought
Zhang Feng
PART III
Core bilateral conflicts
7. Stability in a secondary strategic direction: China and the border dispute
with India from 1962 to 2020
M. Taylor Fravel
8. Solving a solved problem: The Tibet issue in ChinaIndia relations
Fang Tien-sze
9. ChinaIndia river-water conflicts: Toward a solution through launching a
cooperation spiral revisited
Sebastian Biba
PART IV
Military relations
10. Multiple complexities: Indias China strategy before and after Galwan
Yogesh Joshi and Anit Mukherjee
11. Asymmetric but uneven: The ChinaIndia conventional military balance
Oriana Skylar Mastro and Arzan Tarapore
12. ChinaIndia and maritime security: A contest for power and influence in
the Indian Ocean
David Brewster
13. China and India: Two models for AI military acquisition and integration
revisited
Lora Saalman
PART V
Economy and development
14. Competitive convergence: China and India in the new global era
Ye Min
15. Contested partnership: China and India in the evolving BRICS landscape
Gu Jing
16. Indias response to the Belt and Road Initiative
Li Li
PART VI
Relations with third parties
17. American assessments of India and China post-Galwan
Zack Cooper
18. Assessing Russias salience in IndiaChina relations
Vidya Nadkarni
19. India, China, and Pakistan: Southern Asias changing strategic triangle
Christopher Clary
20. Not a substitute for China?: Japans perspective of India as a
prospective partner in Asia
Izuyama Marie
21. Across the Himalayas: China in Indias neighborhood
Constantino Xavier
22. A ChinaIndiaMyanmar triangle?
Sun Yun
23. Rivals at sea: Indias rise against China in the South China Sea and East
China Sea
Ji Yeon-jung
24. China and India in the Middle East: The rivalry moves west?
Nicolas Blarel
25. Chinas and Indias engagement with Africa: Pursuing national interests
Wu Fuzuo
PART VII
China, India, and the global order
26. China, India, and global security: Deploying to UN peacekeeping
operations and shaping the responsibility to protect
Courtney J. Fung
27. China, India, and global health governance
Huang Yanzhong and Jin Jiyong
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Kanti Bajpai is Visiting Professor of International Relations at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India, and Emeritus Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Selina Ho is Deans Chair Associate Professor in International Affairs and Vice-Dean (Research and Development) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.
Manjari Chatterjee Miller is Professor of International Relations and the inaugural Munk Chair in Global India at the Munk School. She is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
