ASIAN RELATIONS: Being Report of the Proceedings and Documentation of the First Asian Relations Conference, New Delhi, March-April, 1947. New Delhi, India: Asian Relations Organization, 1948. Distributed in the United States by Institute of Pacific Relations, New York. 314 pp. $4.00

Social Forces ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-350
Author(s):  
M. T. Price
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hall

This article analyses Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos by Hardeep Singh Puri, a retired senior diplomat and India’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. It outlines the structure and argument of the book, which addresses foreign interventions in various conflicts over the past three decades, including those in Libya, Syria, Yemen, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka, and the emergence of the concept of Responsibility to Protect. It argues that Perilous Interventions is a significant, if problematic, book insofar as it signals that deep scepticism about r2p persists in important sections of the policymaking elite in New Delhi, despite India’s rising power, growing capabilities, and changing relationships with major powers, including the United States. It also introduces the remaining three articles in this special section.


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