Containing seventeen chapters, this volume critically examines Indian economic, political relations, and defence cooperation with major West European countries—France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom as well as Austria, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and Spain from 1947 to the present. It contains five thematic chapters dealing with major topical themes on Indian and European approaches towards issues related to trade, Russian energy, migration, Internet governance, and the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor.
Filling a long-felt gap in the available literature, this book examines mutual perceptions, the complexity, the elements of convergence and divergence as well as the challenges and prospects of India’s relations with Western Europe.
      Rajendra K. Jain was formerly Professor and Chairperson at the Centre for European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and Visiting Professor, Warsaw University (February-May 2022). He was Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow/Professor at the universities of Constance, Freiburg, Leipzig, and Tübingen and Science and Politics Foundation (SWP), Ebenhausen (1995). He has been the first Jean Monnet Chair in India and Adjunct Research Professor, Monash European and EU Studies Centre, Melbourne (2010-2015). He was Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) Professor of Contemporary India, Leuven University (2015). He has most recently published India and Germany in a Turbulent World (2024).