lOMoARcPSD|39897514
India in an emergent multipolar order. strategies and
challenge
history on india (St. Joseph's College (Autonomous))
Scan to open on Studocu
Studocu is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university
Downloaded by Haritha Harshan ()
, lOMoARcPSD|39897514
India in the Emergent Multipolar World Order:
Dynamics and Strategic Challenges.
India has a middle power status and a rising power mind-set. The emerging
multipolar world with multiple centres of political and military influences which
manifest opportunities as well as challenges to India’s foreign policy. The
newness quotient is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘economy first’ approach
rooted in his desire to create external conditions necessary to ensure domestic
economic progress. He has displayed dynamism while engaging all major
powers, promoting and reintegrating India with the global economy, promoting
greater cooperation with South Asian neighbours and renewing strategic
connections in the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
Pragmatism in India’s foreign policy is seen in Indo–US relations reaching a new
level or in cooperation with China on climate change while opposing its
territorial claims in the South China Sea and One Belt One Road Project. To
counter China, India has sought close strategic partnerships with the USA and
its allies and main partners in Asia-Pacific while retaining its strategic
autonomy. A major challenge to India’s foreign policy is the downward spiral of
relations with Pakistan. By all reckoning, India has arrived on the world stage.
In the last three decades, India’s large and rapidly expanding economy coupled
with its huge population and its nuclear powers captured international
attention and enhanced the image of India with a profound change.
India’s foreign policy, out of the Cold War strategic framework, has become
more expansive in dealing with its priorities over the years. With the rise of its
economic and military capabilities and strategic interests, India has shaped a
diplomacy that is much more aggressive in the pursuit of those interests since
the early 1990s.
In the wake of the changing political and security dynamics in the post-Cold
War era, India took the path of economic liberalisation, shed its anti-West,
Third-World outlook and repositioned itself in the world as an important global
actor. India’s influence in its backyard including Nepal, Sri Lanka and the
Maldives had weakened. The absence of a grand strategic thinking in India’s
foreign policy in terms of long-term goals prevented it from spelling out the
roles that it aims to play in global affairs. However, with the coming into power
in May 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government headed by Prime
Downloaded by Haritha Harshan ()
India in an emergent multipolar order. strategies and
challenge
history on india (St. Joseph's College (Autonomous))
Scan to open on Studocu
Studocu is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university
Downloaded by Haritha Harshan ()
, lOMoARcPSD|39897514
India in the Emergent Multipolar World Order:
Dynamics and Strategic Challenges.
India has a middle power status and a rising power mind-set. The emerging
multipolar world with multiple centres of political and military influences which
manifest opportunities as well as challenges to India’s foreign policy. The
newness quotient is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘economy first’ approach
rooted in his desire to create external conditions necessary to ensure domestic
economic progress. He has displayed dynamism while engaging all major
powers, promoting and reintegrating India with the global economy, promoting
greater cooperation with South Asian neighbours and renewing strategic
connections in the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.
Pragmatism in India’s foreign policy is seen in Indo–US relations reaching a new
level or in cooperation with China on climate change while opposing its
territorial claims in the South China Sea and One Belt One Road Project. To
counter China, India has sought close strategic partnerships with the USA and
its allies and main partners in Asia-Pacific while retaining its strategic
autonomy. A major challenge to India’s foreign policy is the downward spiral of
relations with Pakistan. By all reckoning, India has arrived on the world stage.
In the last three decades, India’s large and rapidly expanding economy coupled
with its huge population and its nuclear powers captured international
attention and enhanced the image of India with a profound change.
India’s foreign policy, out of the Cold War strategic framework, has become
more expansive in dealing with its priorities over the years. With the rise of its
economic and military capabilities and strategic interests, India has shaped a
diplomacy that is much more aggressive in the pursuit of those interests since
the early 1990s.
In the wake of the changing political and security dynamics in the post-Cold
War era, India took the path of economic liberalisation, shed its anti-West,
Third-World outlook and repositioned itself in the world as an important global
actor. India’s influence in its backyard including Nepal, Sri Lanka and the
Maldives had weakened. The absence of a grand strategic thinking in India’s
foreign policy in terms of long-term goals prevented it from spelling out the
roles that it aims to play in global affairs. However, with the coming into power
in May 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government headed by Prime
Downloaded by Haritha Harshan ()
