This book attempts to quantify and describe those attributes that most accurately portray India’s capability to exert its national will and seek to arrive at conclusions of where India currently figures in the global order.

Presenting an overview and concept of the comprehensive national power (CNP), it makes efforts to access how various powers compared in this study could exert their national power to leverage the international environment to their national advantage. It also analyses each of the identified determinants with a view to suggesting remedial measures that would, if followed upon and implemented, enhance the country’s CNP.