Contents: 1. China's growing pace in Nepal a threat to India: Nepal's policy options between principle and pragmatism/Dasarathi Bhuiyan. 2. Challenges and strategies: rethinking Indian foreign policy in a new century/M. Shafi Bhat. 3. Foreign policy in Narendra Modi/Sudhansubala Das. 4. Internal conflicts in Nepal and its ramifications for India/Bagisha Suman and Prashant Kumar. 5. India's act easy policy and Indo-Japan relations: a new strategic dyad/Anish V R and Linda George. 6. Climate change and migration : special references to India and Bangladesh/Sunita Samal. 7. Chinese involvement in the politics of Indian ocean since 2000: an analysis/Fathimath Suhara Kadakkadan. 8. Tamil ethnic conflict as a factor in India Sri Lanka relations/Suchismita Panda. 9. India's relations with SAARC countries/Shameem, C.C. 10. China and India: historical animosity or contemporary congeniality/Mehraj Uddin Gojree. 11. India-Myanmar expanding relations: challenges and opportunities/Omkar Rout. 12. The evolution of Indo-Myanmar strategic relations: a constructive engagement/Purusottam Samarath. 13. Water as a factor in Indo-Nepal relations: conflict and cooperation/Bhabani Priyadarshini Mohanty. 14. North-East India as a factor in India-Myanmar military cooperation/Afroz Ahmad and Jahangir Ahmad Khan. 15. India's Afghan policy in the towards the Tibetan liberation movement: postcolonial dilemma and implications on its relations with China/Madhumita Das. 16. India's foreign policy towards the Tibetan liberation movement: post colonial dilemma and implications on its relations with China/Madhumita Das. 17. Indo-Pak rivalry: its impacts on south Asia/Shabnum Akhtar. 18. Transnational regional identities and its impacts on Indian foreign policy making/Surender Singh. 19. Climate change, demographic challenges and aid from US to Pakistan: imperatives of new approaches and implications on India/Narottam Gaan. 20. Illegal migrations from Bangladesh to India: P.M. Narendra Modi's response/Susanta Kumar Parida.