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highlight India and international organisation special reference to use three India's global groupings ​

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With India being a rising power in the international community, one of the hallmarks of its soft power is its steadfast engagement with multilateral international institutions, particularly the United Nations (UN). India is a founding member of the UN, and it signed the “Declaration by United Nations” in Washington, D.C. on 1 January 1942 before its independence from the British Empire. India has served as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for seven terms – a total of 14 years – and is an active participant in all the UN’s specialised agencies and organisations. Recent scholarship has focused on how the rise of India has impacted its participation at the international level and its impact on global governance. In particular, the evolution of India’s active role in multilateral negotiations on trade, climate change, and development policy has been the subject of much attention. However, there has been no comparative analysis of India’s strategic approach to multilateral negotiations and a consideration of how and why India successfully or unsuccessfully achieves cooperation in its multilateral engagements.

This paper’s focus is not restricted to India’s achievements at the UN. Rather, it seeks to understand India’s strategic approach to coalition-building and achieving multilateral cooperation with international organisations. India’s engagement at the UN can be divided into two broad themes: International Development and International Security. While India also engages with the UN on issues like human rights, health and diseases, and the UN’s administrative and budgetary issues, its most intense engagements take place under the umbrella of the two themes mentioned above. By focusing on India’s engagement on these issues, this paper seeks to understand why India’s approach to achieving cooperation succeeds more on issues of international development as compared to issues of international security. It also seeks to answer how India’s goal of achieving cooperation is affected by the perceptions of benefits accrued by India’s partners at the UN, and how game theory affects this success, or lack thereof, on specific issues at the UN.