
Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar Menon
In Pursuit of Development
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The Role of Personality in Foreign Policy Making
I wanted to ask you about the role of personalities. To what extent do individuals, individual personalities, pay a key roll in foreign policy making? I'm particularly interested in better understanding the personal chemistry between president sh and prime minister mody. Both have visited each other, met on numerous occasions. But i think more than that, i think there's no question personalitis matter. And diplomacy is the one, maybe the last area of state enterprise where the sovereign actually matters.
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