ISAS Working Papers

India's foreign policy since independence has evolved in three distinct phas es. In the first phase, which lasted until 1964, it was mostly ideational. Between 1964 and 1990, it was a peculiar amalgam of ideational rhetoric and increasingly Realist behaviour . Since the end of the Cold War, it has all but embraced Realist premises with occasional rhetor ical nods toward its ideational past. This paper traces the source s of these changes and attributes them to an interaction of structure and agency.