Abstract

XAVIER, Constantino. An American loved in New Deli. Relações Internacionais [online]. 2013, n.39, pp.59-62. ISSN 1645-9199.

Unlike with many other American theorists, the work of Kenneth Waltz has always been popular in India. Even at the height of the Cold War, while Washington allied with Pakistan and practiced the theses of the “ayatollahs of non-proliferation”, Waltz was among the few opposing voices, defending India’s nuclear program. For a relatively weak India used to see its strategic posture analyzed with condescendence and old-fashioned cultural and orientalist paradigms, Waltz’s structural neo-realism promises equality because it restricts its analysis to a universal criterion of pure power. This allows Indian realists to narrate their country’s progressive normalization as a great power.

Keywords : Kenneth N. Waltz; India; nuclear proliferation; foreign policy.

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