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International Affairs, a leading journal in the field of international relations, heads off 2017 with a special issue (Volume 93, Number 1, January 2017) dedicated to Indian foreign policy. The issue, which is co-edited by Manjari Chatterjee Miller of Boston University and Kate Sullivan de Estrada of Oxford University, presents the results of an international research network that has examined the impact of India’s rise and of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership on India’s foreign policy.
As Miller and Sullivan de Estrada note in the introduction , this special issue is particularly important because it is “the first time that Indian foreign policy has been the central focus of an English-language IR journal edited in ‘the West.’” This issue brings Indian foreign policy and its evolving geopolitical role to the forefront of Western academia, allowing leading scholars and policy-makers in the West to engage with the subject. Previously, “detailed discussions of Indian foreign policy tend[ed] to be scattered across and confined to regional or India-specific academic journals, think-tanks and the media. Rarely have western International Relations (IR) journals engaged seriously with India.”
The decision to focus on Modi is well-thought through and is reflected throughout the articles in the journal. Rather than focusing on Indian foreign policy in general, this issue has chosen to focus on the “current prime minister” in order to “draw early conclusions about the impact of Modi’s leadership on future foreign policy directions,” and so “bridge a much lamented academic–policy divide.” In addition to focusing on Modi, the issue also engages with the perspectives of “three major global players—the United States, China and the United Kingdom—in order to understand how India’s rise is viewed internationally.”India’s foreign policy strategy through the framework established established in Rajesh Basrur’s article “Modi’s foreign policy fundamentals: a trajectory unchanged.” Basrur argues convincingly that although Modi may differ greatly in terms of style from his predecessor as prime minister, Manmohan Singh, India’s foreign policy can be broadly defined by continuity from 1991 onwards. It was in 1991 when the major change in India’s foreign policy calculus occurred, leading to the current consensus among India’s foreign policy elites. The section is worth quoting in full:
[After the Cold War], instead of trying to avoid engagement with the Great Power system, India now began to seek a prominent place in it. On the economic side, it gave up all notions of building a ‘new international economic order’ and began to encourage foreign investment and trade. One fundamental similarity between the old and the new approaches remained: the preference for strategic autonomy. But even here there was an important difference. In the old days, India had sought autonomy to minimize the costs and risks associated with being a weak power; now it began to think of autonomy as undergirding its quest for security and status as an emerging major power. In essence, what India wants today is to maximize its strategic autonomy as well as security by means of a hedging approach—that is, by spreading its bets and developing strong relationships with as many major powers as possible. In short, it is naturally inclined to favour building multiple strategic partnerships.
To emphasize again, two themes in particular stand out in this section that the issue’s various authors return to often: strategic autonomy and hedging, and strategy that secures strategic autonomy.
As such, this is not “non-alignment in new attire,” but an approach to an increasingly complex, interdependent world balanced with realpolitik. Despite expectations that the rise of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would upset this approach to geopolitics, Modi has largely followed the same paradigm as his predecessors, maintaining a type of pragmatism further explored in an article in the issue by Miller and Sullivan de Estrada.
As Basrur points out, tougher language toward China and Pakistan has not ended dialogue and cooperation with those countries. Similarly, closer relations with the United States and Japan has not led to outright alignment with those states. India seems determined to continue to take an upward, but inoffensive, steady, and respectable path to great power status, avoiding alignment and interventionism for the most part; what Modi has done is market his country more prominently than his predecessors on the global stage while continuing the trajectory of his predecessors.
Nonetheless, India is still cultivating closer relations with a variety of countries, especially the United States, in order to enhance its strategic position.
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International Affairs, a leading journal in the field of international relations, heads off 2017 with a special issue (Volume 93, Number 1, January 2017) dedicated to Indian foreign policy. The issue, which is co-edited by Manjari Chatterjee Miller of Boston University and Kate Sullivan de Estrada of Oxford University, presents the results of an international research network that has examined the impact of India’s rise and of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership on India’s foreign policy.
As Miller and Sullivan de Estrada note in the introduction , this special issue is particularly important because it is “the first time that Indian foreign policy has been the central focus of an English-language IR journal edited in ‘the West.’” This issue brings Indian foreign policy and its evolving geopolitical role to the forefront of Western academia, allowing leading scholars and policy-makers in the West to engage with the subject. Previously, “detailed discussions of Indian foreign policy tend[ed] to be scattered across and confined to regional or India-specific academic journals, think-tanks and the media. Rarely have western International Relations (IR) journals engaged seriously with India.”
The decision to focus on Modi is well-thought through and is reflected throughout the articles in the journal. Rather than focusing on Indian foreign policy in general, this issue has chosen to focus on the “current prime minister” in order to “draw early conclusions about the impact of Modi’s leadership on future foreign policy directions,” and so “bridge a much lamented academic–policy divide.” In addition to focusing on Modi, the issue also engages with the perspectives of “three major global players—the United States, China and the United Kingdom—in order to understand how India’s rise is viewed internationally.”India’s foreign policy strategy through the framework established established in Rajesh Basrur’s article “Modi’s foreign policy fundamentals: a trajectory unchanged.” Basrur argues convincingly that although Modi may differ greatly in terms of style from his predecessor as prime minister, Manmohan Singh, India’s foreign policy can be broadly defined by continuity from 1991 onwards. It was in 1991 when the major change in India’s foreign policy calculus occurred, leading to the current consensus among India’s foreign policy elites. The section is worth quoting in full:
[After the Cold War], instead of trying to avoid engagement with the Great Power system, India now began to seek a prominent place in it. On the economic side, it gave up all notions of building a ‘new international economic order’ and began to encourage foreign investment and trade. One fundamental similarity between the old and the new approaches remained: the preference for strategic autonomy. But even here there was an important difference. In the old days, India had sought autonomy to minimize the costs and risks associated with being a weak power; now it began to think of autonomy as undergirding its quest for security and status as an emerging major power. In essence, what India wants today is to maximize its strategic autonomy as well as security by means of a hedging approach—that is, by spreading its bets and developing strong relationships with as many major powers as possible. In short, it is naturally inclined to favour building multiple strategic partnerships.
To emphasize again, two themes in particular stand out in this section that the issue’s various authors return to often: strategic autonomy and hedging, and strategy that secures strategic autonomy.
As such, this is not “non-alignment in new attire,” but an approach to an increasingly complex, interdependent world balanced with realpolitik. Despite expectations that the rise of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would upset this approach to geopolitics, Modi has largely followed the same paradigm as his predecessors, maintaining a type of pragmatism further explored in an article in the issue by Miller and Sullivan de Estrada.
As Basrur points out, tougher language toward China and Pakistan has not ended dialogue and cooperation with those countries. Similarly, closer relations with the United States and Japan has not led to outright alignment with those states. India seems determined to continue to take an upward, but inoffensive, steady, and respectable path to great power status, avoiding alignment and interventionism for the most part; what Modi has done is market his country more prominently than his predecessors on the global stage while continuing the trajectory of his predecessors.
Nonetheless, India is still cultivating closer relations with a variety of countries, especially the United States, in order to enhance its strategic position.
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"21st century is going to be the INDIAN century". We all have heard many national and international political & economical leaders saying this many times.This is all because of rapidly increasing infuence of India,in practically every field around the globe,in past few years,after the globalisation of Indian economy.
In present scenario,India is at focus of world's major issues whether it is politics,science and technology or education,peace missions etc.and the list is endless.Earlier,the country that was thaught to be as a land of just elephants and snakes,poverty and hunger,now every country wants to enter in collaboration with it just because they have realised that it is not possible to carry forward the process of world development without India having about 2.4% of world's total land area with about 16% of total world's population having in it yhe largest youth populatin in the world which is its the most valuable asset.Due to India's fast development ,the face of indian cities and villages have changed rapidly.We are having world class airports,roads,railways and metro trains running in cities.All this have changed India's image at global fronts completely.Due to this we have been given responsibility to host Common wealth games 2010 in New Delhi.Now this is compelling most of the Indians to return back to their homeland who have left the country for better oppurtunities abroad. How much influencial is India at international level is indicated by many events that have occurred recently in a few years.
India has emerged as IT giant in past years.Major part of world's outsourcing bussiness has been shifted to India by many MNC's.Many indian IT firms have been entered in Fortune-500 group.Indian companies have now been emerging as the largest buyers of the foreign companies which is clear from TATA's acquisition of steel giant CORUS steels,which is 5 times the TATA in capital,that has made it world's 3rd largest steel producer with Arcelor-Mittal(world's largest steel producer)already in hand of Lakshmi Niwas Mittal of indian origin.This has greatly impressed the world and has raised the value and reliability of MADE IN INDIA tag manyfold all around.
India has also emerged as an education and medical hub in recent years.Some of the indian institutions like IITs,IIMs and ISRO etc. are of world repute and has hosted the indian flag and compelled the world to see the great indian talent.Today indian institution have appreciation at notice boards of nearly all universities and colleges of great repute.They are now aware of technical menpower of India which is now considered as the best mind in the world.India is among the countries having there own PSLV and GSLV launching vehicles developed indigenously.We are now among major powers in space and besides this are well ahead in defence techniques that has urged many countries to have joint practice session with indian forces.Moreover,realizing the effectiveness and warfare skills of indian forces UN has asked indian forces for there support in its many peace missions in different parts around the globe and highly appreciated there work.
India now play a major role in world trade and commerce and advocate the welfare of developing countries.It has emerged out as the leader of Asian developing countries that shows good hold of India over Asia.But story doesn't end here.India has been made partner in an Ultra Mega Project of developing technique of producing power from nucler fusion process,mainly carried out by rich and developed countries .Many indian scientists are also involved in LHC project going on at CERN.Besides this the recent INDO-US civil nuke deal further shows that US is too not uninfluenced by India growing base on international grounds.Due to India's growing power, many countries are now advocating her permanent membership in UN security council.Moreover,our prime minister gave his historical speech in hindi at UN meeting,which was a great moment for indians.
In present scenario,India is at focus of world's major issues whether it is politics,science and technology or education,peace missions etc.and the list is endless.Earlier,the country that was thaught to be as a land of just elephants and snakes,poverty and hunger,now every country wants to enter in collaboration with it just because they have realised that it is not possible to carry forward the process of world development without India having about 2.4% of world's total land area with about 16% of total world's population having in it yhe largest youth populatin in the world which is its the most valuable asset.Due to India's fast development ,the face of indian cities and villages have changed rapidly.We are having world class airports,roads,railways and metro trains running in cities.All this have changed India's image at global fronts completely.Due to this we have been given responsibility to host Common wealth games 2010 in New Delhi.Now this is compelling most of the Indians to return back to their homeland who have left the country for better oppurtunities abroad. How much influencial is India at international level is indicated by many events that have occurred recently in a few years.
India has emerged as IT giant in past years.Major part of world's outsourcing bussiness has been shifted to India by many MNC's.Many indian IT firms have been entered in Fortune-500 group.Indian companies have now been emerging as the largest buyers of the foreign companies which is clear from TATA's acquisition of steel giant CORUS steels,which is 5 times the TATA in capital,that has made it world's 3rd largest steel producer with Arcelor-Mittal(world's largest steel producer)already in hand of Lakshmi Niwas Mittal of indian origin.This has greatly impressed the world and has raised the value and reliability of MADE IN INDIA tag manyfold all around.
India has also emerged as an education and medical hub in recent years.Some of the indian institutions like IITs,IIMs and ISRO etc. are of world repute and has hosted the indian flag and compelled the world to see the great indian talent.Today indian institution have appreciation at notice boards of nearly all universities and colleges of great repute.They are now aware of technical menpower of India which is now considered as the best mind in the world.India is among the countries having there own PSLV and GSLV launching vehicles developed indigenously.We are now among major powers in space and besides this are well ahead in defence techniques that has urged many countries to have joint practice session with indian forces.Moreover,realizing the effectiveness and warfare skills of indian forces UN has asked indian forces for there support in its many peace missions in different parts around the globe and highly appreciated there work.
India now play a major role in world trade and commerce and advocate the welfare of developing countries.It has emerged out as the leader of Asian developing countries that shows good hold of India over Asia.But story doesn't end here.India has been made partner in an Ultra Mega Project of developing technique of producing power from nucler fusion process,mainly carried out by rich and developed countries .Many indian scientists are also involved in LHC project going on at CERN.Besides this the recent INDO-US civil nuke deal further shows that US is too not uninfluenced by India growing base on international grounds.Due to India's growing power, many countries are now advocating her permanent membership in UN security council.Moreover,our prime minister gave his historical speech in hindi at UN meeting,which was a great moment for indians.
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