Conlang Geopolitics
Sanctions & Samosas
The Economic Diplomacy Story
How trade quietly rewrote foreign policy.
Format
Hardcover Deluxe
Pages
400
Language
English
Release
2026
Editorial Note
A deluxe volume on how, quietly and unglamorously, trade policy has become foreign policy — and India has learned to write both at once.
§ Synopsis
Inside the book.
The old handshake diplomacy has been quietly displaced by something less telegenic and considerably more consequential: a global chessboard of tariffs, sanctions, export controls, FTAs, and trade-corridor treaties. Foreign policy today is written in balance-sheet ink.
Sanctions & Samosas is a deluxe volume on that shift — reconstructed through Indian embassy trade cables, CEPA negotiation minutes, WTO filings, and interviews with over eighty senior trade officials, negotiators, and commodity chiefs. It argues, with data and narrative in equal measure, that the twenty-first century will be won by the country that treats every trade round as a foreign-policy summit.
§ Table of Contents
Chapters.
- 01Prelude — The Table Where Deals Are Made
- 02Book I — The Age of Sanctions
- 03Book II — CEPA, FTA, RCEP
- 04Book III — Chips, Energy, Rare Earths
- 05Book IV — Corridors: IMEC, INSTC, and Beyond
- 06Book V — India's Trade Foreign Policy
- 07Coda — The Deluxe Print of a Small Table
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§ Press & Reviews
The critics say.
“A landmark on Indian economic diplomacy — the first volume of its kind.”
— Financial Times — India
“Reads like a trade cable, written like a novel.”
— The Economist — Bagehot India
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