India-Mongolia Relations: Beyond Greater Central Asia

India has emerged as a confident and engaging partner in international arena, metamorphosing from the image of a reluctant power in the late 20th century, reflecting a realization by its polity of the potential and benefits of such engagements in India's larger interests. While tons of literature delve on India's relations with the west, far and near, scholarly studies relating to the Far East or Greater Central Asia, however remain limited. This book attempts bridge this gap. Drawing on broad range of schools of thoughts and a number of different approaches, it presents the learned views of scholars applying a variety of methodological techniques. While keeping Mongolia at the centre of interest, the scholarly approaches look at India's Look East and Look North Policies, Mongolia's relations with Russia, the Third Neighbour Dilemma, USA-Mongolia relations, and India-Tajik relations, including the play of soft power in international relations.

Sureyya Yigit is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the School of Politics and Diplomacy, New Vision University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He has been the Senior Consultant to ZDS - Women's Democracy Network Public Fund, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, since 2013. He is also a consultant to Aeropodium. He has lectured in many universities throughout Central Asia for more than a decade and has numerous publications relating to the region's energy nexus, foreign policy, security questions, environmental challenges, post-communist transition and integration efforts. He has also published extensively concerning Mongolia's democratic transition and economic development. His latest book is entitled Mongolia – European Union Relations.

Dr R Srinivasan is the Founder-Director of Praghna Center for Research, a Coimbatore-LLP that promotes scientific research among students and emerging scholars in social sciences. He is also the Publisher cum Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Journal of Social and Strategic Studies, an online Open Access research journal. He holds a PhD in Political Sociology and is an internationally published author of over a dozen book chapters and over 30 research articles. Apart from his academic and research activities, he writes and blogs on religion, philosophy, international events, leadership and management. He retired as a Group Captain from Indian Air Force after 33 years of service. He was conferred the Visisht Seva Medal by Hon’ble President of India for Distinguished Service of a high order, in 2012.