The Indian State’s Capacity to Get Things Done

Abstract

Long impoverished, India is on the rise in economic and military terms. Its gross domestic product is expanding faster than population growth, and India is becoming one of the world’s largest economies. Defense and foreign policies tend to expand in response to capability improvements. Indian foreign policy and military concerns, long centered on South Asia, have grown to encompass a much wider proportion of Indo-Pacific Asia. Indian ambitions have also expanded: a popular question is whether or when India will ascend to the world’s power elite and be accorded great power status.