About the Book: Choices : Inside The Making Of Indian Foreign Policy
Shivshankar Menon gives an insider's account of the negotiations, discussions
and assessments that went into the making of five pivotal choices in India's
recent history. These include the decision not to use overt military force
against Pakistan after 26/11; the civil nuclear deal with the United States; the
border agreement with China; the response to the last months of Sri Lanka's
brutal civil war; and the thinking that underlay India's No First Use nuclear
policy. Drawing on his long and distinguished career as a diplomat holding
critical positions in India's external affairs ministry and in