CONTENTS: Preface, Introduction, 1. Constituent Assembly: Drawing the Contours of Foreign Policy, 2. Provisional Parliament: Continuity and Change, 3. Sri Lanka and India: Origins, the IPKF Experience and its Fallout, 4. World Trade Organisation: The New World Trade Arrangement, 5. Nuclear Energy Debates Since Independence, 6. Civil Nuclear Cooperation, Historical Background and Forward Movement, 7. Endgame: Left Intensifies Opposition and UPA Wins, 8. Embers Continue to Glow and Singe as Opposition Forces the Pace, 9. Expanding Scope and Forays into Policy-Making, 10. Policy Dictates of Single-Party Governments and Compulsion of Coalition Arrangements, Bibliography, Index.