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Commentary – The Making Of Quad Realism

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  • William H. Thornton
  • Songok Han Thornton

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Once again, the world is polarizing along ideological lines and this time India can neither stand aside nor stand alone. In the face of China's mounting provocations and patent military superiority, Narendra Modi knows that India has no choice but to seek security through Sino‐resistant channels like the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (or Quad), in league with America, Japan, and Australia. It is no accident that India's most dependable allies are liberal democracies. This puts Modi in a stupendous ideological bind. The Davos globalism he has courted in the past was so economistic that his domestic repression was all but ignored. Now, however, he is playing in a liberal international league where his style of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) autocracy will not be condoned. His fate as well as India's hinges on how he navigates a post‐globalist geopolitics that is presently defined by the moral realism of the Biden Doctrine. Una vez más, el mundo se está polarizando en líneas ideológicas y esta vez la India no puede quedarse al margen ni estar sola. Frente a las crecientes provocaciones y la superioridad militar patente de China, Narendra Modi sabe que India no tiene más remedio que buscar la seguridad a través de canales resistentes a China como el Diálogo de Seguridad Cuadrilateral (o Quad), en alianza con Estados Unidos, Japón y Australia. No es casualidad que los aliados más confiables de la India sean las democracias liberales. Esto pone a Modi en un estupendo aprieto ideológico. El globalismo de Davos al que ha cortejado en el pasado era tan economicista que su represión interna fue casi ignorada. Ahora, sin embargo, está jugando en una liga internacional liberal donde su estilo de autocracia del Partido Bharatiya Janata (BJP) no será tolerado. Su destino, así como el de la India, depende de cómo navegue por una geopolítica posglobalista que actualmente está definida por el realismo moral de la Doctrina Biden. 世界再次出现意识形态极化现象,这一次,印度既不袖手旁观也不独自行动。面临中国逐渐增加的挑衅和明显的军事优越,纳伦德拉·莫迪明白印度已别无他法,只能通过例如与美国、日本和澳洲结盟的四边安全对话(Quad)等制衡中国的机制寻求安全。印度最可靠的盟友是自由民主国家,这并非偶然。这将莫迪置于巨大的意识形态困境中。他过去所追求的达沃斯全球主义(Davos globalism)过度追求经济,以至于他在印度实行的国内压制(domestic repression)几乎被忽视。不过,他目前是Quad这一自由国际联盟的一员,后者不会容忍其印度人民党(BJP)的专制风格。他和印度的未来将取决于他如何应对后全球主义地缘政治,目前该地缘政治由拜登主义的道德现实主义所定义。

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  • William H. Thornton & Songok Han Thornton, 2022. "Commentary – The Making Of Quad Realism," World Affairs, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 185(2), pages 383-407, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:woraff:v:185:y:2022:i:2:p:383-407
    DOI: 10.1177/00438200221081110
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