Alyssa Ayres bietet scharfe Analysen über den Aufstieg Indiens und seine komplexe Rolle auf der Weltbühne. Ihre Arbeit befasst sich mit dem komplexen Zusammenspiel von Nationalismus, Kultur und Politik in Südasien und untersucht insbesondere die Dynamik zwischen Indien, Pakistan, China und den Vereinigten Staaten. Ayres bringt die Perspektive einer Praktikerin in die Außenpolitik ein und beleuchtet die sich wandelnde globale Ordnung. Ihre Schriften vermitteln den Lesern ein nuanciertes Verständnis des wachsenden Einflusses dieser entscheidenden Region.
Long plagued by poverty, India's recent economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging powers-but what kind of power it wants to be remains a mystery. Cautious Superpower explains why India behaves the way it does, and the role it is likely to play globally as its prominence grows.
Alyssa Ayres' fascinating study examines Pakistan's troubled history by exploring the importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of the nation's great cultural past, but due to its limited base great efforts would be required to make it truly national. This paradox underscores the importance of cultural policies for national identity formation. By comparing Pakistan's experience with those of India and Indonesia, the author analyzes how their national language policies led to very different outcomes. The lessons of these large multiethnic states offer insights for the understanding of culture, identity, and nationalism throughout the world. The book is aimed at scholars in the fields of history, political theory and South Asian studies, as well as those interested in the history of culture and nationalism in one of the world's most complex, and challenging, countries.