ANALYZING FOREIGN POLICY: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND (Pages 47-56) by Ms. Babita Negi in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

"Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.” - Aristotle, Politics This principle of Aristotle has taken a broader position; Globalization is only the result of this principle. Every country needs to take some steps to maintain the relations with the other nation so that they could have speedy growth and these steps are accommodated by a nation’s Foreignsteps are accommodated by a nation’s ForeignPolicy’. Foreign policy not only helps a country inachieving political objectives but also provides asafe guard against the era of power politics in theterms of belligerence, crusade and exploitationWhen India got freedom, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehruthought of establishing good relationship withneighboring countries and implemented it aftertaking over charge as the India’s first PrimeMinister and laid the foundation of foreignpolicies. He took so many steps towards the goodrelationship with our neighboring countries andgave India a new dimension of growth. ShashiTharoor depicted his work in his book Nehru TheInvention of India. Shashi Tharoor, theparliamentarian and award winning author, beingfor long time in foreign services experienced theneed of relation with foreign countries and sharedhis views in his book Pax Indica: India and theWorld of 21st Century. Tharoor emphasizes onameliorating good relations and its need to theprogress of India. The paper shall deal with ShashiTharoor’s ideas on foreign policies in his novelsPax Indica: India and the World of 21st Century.Keywords: Globalization, foreign policies,neighborhood, self-sufficiency etc.