Nehru’s foreign policy is conventionally understood as being idealistic. However, there are those who claim that Nehru was motivated by realist considerations. Such a contrarian viewpoint is often made using the balance of power lens. While some use this lens explicitly, others utilize it implicitly. This study brings together such contrarian claims and tries to understand how they all ‘hang together’. In order to do so, it creates an overall balance of power framework within which scholarship arguing that Nehru was motivated by balance of power considerations is situated. Such an exercise brings rigour and clarity to the ‘Nehru the realist’ argument and enables one to better understand the nature of Nehru’s foreign policy.

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一个鲜为人知的故事剖析：尼赫鲁与权力平衡

尼赫鲁的外交政策通常被认为是理想主义的。然而，有些人声称尼赫鲁的动机是出于现实主义的考虑。这种逆向观点通常是使用平衡力透镜来制作的。虽然有些人明确使用这个镜头，但其他人则暗中使用它。这项研究汇集了这些逆势主张，并试图了解它们是如何“团结在一起”的。为了做到这一点，它创造了一个整体的权力平衡框架，其​​中有学者认为尼赫鲁的动机是权力平衡的考虑。这样的练习使“现实主义者尼赫鲁”的论点变得严谨和清晰，并使人们能够更好地理解尼赫鲁外交政策的性质。