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"Crossing the Rubicon explores the global engagement that India has taken up with a rare sense of purpose and self-confidence in recent years, examining shifts in foreign policy beginning in the 1980s through the nuclear tests of the 1990s to its current strategy. Two key issues guide much of this revolutionary change in Indian diplomacy: the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and a new wave of economic globalization. These developments left India scrambling to find new anchors for its foreign policy. C. Raja Mohan examines the reworking of India's relations with major powers, notably its new rapport with the United States and its rejuvenated relationship with post-Soviet Russia. What emerges is a remarkable tale of a country's transformation from being a leader of the Third World trade union to preparing for a seat at the highest level of global diplomacy."--BOOK JACKET.