India?s Stance at the WTO: Shifting Coordinates, Unaltered Paradigm
India's stance at the WTO has undergone a sea change since the beginning of the Uruguay Round. This paper attempts to trace the shifting coordinates of India?s position at the WTO. By focussing on three specific areas of negotiations, namely agriculture, services and TRIPS, the paper presents a theoretical analysis of how India?s stance at the WTO has evolved over time and whether it reflects any paradigm shift. In the light of international relations theory we argue that although the coordinates of India?s stance at the WTO have shifted over time, the underlying ?neo-realist? position adopted by India remains by and large unaltered.