Overview

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. The 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. The 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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Author:   Kanti Bajpai (National University of Singapore, Singapore) ,  Selina Ho (National University of Singapore, Singapore) ,  Manjari Chatterjee Miller (Boston University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032803654

ISBN 10:   1032803657
Pages:   482
Publication Date:   05 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Editorial Board / Advisory Council Rosemary Foot, Oxford University Carla P. Freeman, Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies John Garver, Georgia Institute of Technology Jia Qingguo, Peking University David M. Lampton, Stanford University Shivshankar Menon, former Foreign Secretary and National Security, Advisor of India T.V. Paul, McGill University Nirupama Rao, former Foreign Secretary of India Shen Dingli, Fudan University 1 new member tbc chapter to be updated Introduction, Kanti Bajpai, Selina Ho and Manjari Chatterjee Miller 1. Reflections on Comparing China and India, Tarun Khanna Historical Overviews 2. China and India Pre-1939, Rudolph G. Wagner 3. Relations between the Republic of China and India, 1937-1949, Tansen Sen 4. The 1950s in China-India Relations, Hu Xiaowen Culture and Strategic Culture: Constructing the Other 7. India in China’s Strategic Thought, Zhang Feng 8. China in India’s Strategic Thought, Ian Hall Core Bilateral Conflicts 9. Stability in a Secondary Strategic Direction: China and the Border Dispute with India After 1962, M. Taylor Fravel 11. Solving a Solved Problem: The Tibet Issue in China-India Relations, Fang Tien-sze 12. China-India River Conflicts: Towards a Solution through Launching a Cooperation Spiral, Sebastian Biba Military Relations 13. Offensive Defense: India’s Strategic Responses to the Rise of China, Yogesh Joshi and Anit Mukherjee 14. Asymmetric but Uneven: The China-India Conventional Military Balance, Oriana Skylar Mastro and Arzan Tarapore 15. China-India and Maritime Security: A Contest for Power and Influence in the Indian Ocean, David Brewster 16. China and India: Two Models for AI Military Acquisition and Integration, Lora Saalman Economy and Connectivity 20. Diverging Capitalism in China and India: A Historical Institutionalist Approach, Ye Min 21. Contested Partnership: China and India in a Changing BRICS, Gu Jing and Neil Renwick Relations with Third Parties 23. Russia: A Balancer in India-China Relations?, Vidya Nadkarni 24. India, China and Japan’s Policy of Regionalism, Marie Izuyama 26. Across the Himalayas: China in India’s Neighbourhood, Constantino Xavier 27. Unequal Rivals: China, India and the Struggle for Influence in Southeast Asia, Sheryn Lee 28. China and India in the Middle East: The Rivalry moves West?, Nicolas Blarel 29. China and India’s Engagement with Africa: Seeking National Interests, Wu Fuzuo 31. Chinese and Indian Competitive Nuclear Restraint in the Global Nuclear Order, Nicola Leveringhaus and Kate Sullivan de Estrada 32. China, India, and Outer Space: Cooperation and Competition in the Global Commons, Julie Michelle Klinger 33. China, India and Global Security: Deploying to UN Peacekeeping Operations and Shaping the Responsibility to Protect, Courtney J. Fung 35. Engaging Global Health Governance: The Experience of China and India, Huang Yanzhong new chapters tbc • China and India’s perspectives on Galwan and other recent border confrontations (Carla Freeman, Senior Expert China, United States Institute of Peace, and Manoj Kewalramani, Chairperson of the Indo-Pacific Research Programme and Head, China Studies, Takshashila Institution) • China-India media relations (Ananth Krishnan, China Correspondent, The Hindu, Chennai) • India’s response to the BRI (Li Li, Senior Research Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute for International Relations, Tsinghua University, China) • China-India economic relations including their approach to new multilateral economic agreements incl. RCEP and CPTPP (Roselyn Hsueh, Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University) • China-India-US-Pakistan (Sadanand Dhume, Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, OR Alyssa Ayres, Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, OR Zack Cooper, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute) • China-India-Myanmar (Thant Myint U, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge, United Nations Special Adviser on Humanitarian Diplomacy) • India’s response to China’s conflicts over Taiwan, South China Sea, East China Sea, Korean peninsula (Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, SCSA-IPA) • China, India, and climate change (Vinod Thomas, former professor Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and formerly ADB and World Bank, OR Miriam Prys-Hansen, GIGA, Hamburg) • China, India, and demography (Jen Sciubba, Senior Associate (Non-resident), Hess Center for New Frontiers, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC)

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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 Dean’s 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.

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