ABSTRACT This article proposes that the study of Indian foreign policy and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) offers a “win-win situation” for scholarship. On the one hand, this bridge-building exercise leads to a better understanding of the making and substance of Indian foreign policy. On the other hand, it advances FPA in both theoretical and empirical terms, thus contributing to overcoming FPA’s US/Western bias and to decentering the field more generally. Framing the argument in terms of levels of analysis, we offer specific contributions to the understanding of foreign policy in areas such as leadership traits, poliheuristic theory, coalition politics, and state-society influences. Moreover, this line of research suggests the contours of a new comparative foreign policy agenda which could emerge from this examination of Indian foreign policy.

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外交政策分析与印度外交政策研究：理论创新之路？

摘要本文提出，印度外交政策和外交政策分析（FPA）的研究为奖学金提供了一个“双赢的局面”。一方面，这种搭建桥梁的活动有助于更好地了解印度外交政策的制定和实质。另一方面，它在理论和经验两方面都推动了 FPA，从而有助于克服 FPA 的美国/西方偏见并更普遍地使该领域去中心化。我们根据分析层次来构建论证，为理解领导特质、政治启发式理论、联盟政治和国家社会影响等领域的外交政策做出具体贡献。此外，这一系列的研究表明了一个新的比较外交政策议程的轮廓，它可以从对印度外交政策的这次审查中出现。