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India in the Emergent Multipolar World Order: Dynamics and Strategic Challenges

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  • Veena Kukreja

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India has a middle power status and a rising power mindset. The emerging multipolar world manifests 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.

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  • Veena Kukreja, 2020. "India in the Emergent Multipolar World Order: Dynamics and Strategic Challenges," India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, , vol. 76(1), pages 8-23, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indqtr:v:76:y:2020:i:1:p:8-23
    DOI: 10.1177/0974928419901187
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