India’s foreign policy: nationalist aspirations and enduring constraints

Hall, Ian

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“…Nehru's death in 1964 and the India-China war of 1962 led Indira Gandhi (as Prime Minister of India from 1966India from -1977India from and 1980India from -1984 to follow different strategies as She saw nonalignment as a kind of balance of power not meeting to India's national interest (Hall:2022). It is neither meeting the national security demand nor provided any space to preach world peace.…”

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“…It is in this context of Indira Gandhi's foreign policy, Stephen Cohen used the term "militant Nehruvian" to describe how she cultivated pragmatic devotion to non-alignment (Chiriyankandath, 2004). Indira's narrow focus on national interest and her opinion that India is a great nation and, if not a great power, any threat to her independence will be meet through military means (Hall:2022). Later, the short-sting Janata regime, under the leadership of Morarji Deshi, ran the government, and his foreign minister, Atal Bihar Bajpayee, still gave much weight to non-alignment strategies.…”

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“…It was in this alarming situation that P.V. Narasimha Rao, the then Prime Minister of India, introduced the economic reform of LPG (liberalization, privatization, and globalization) and the "Look East "policy as a part of changing the direction of Indian foreign policy to attract trade and investment from East Asian countries to accelerate Indian economic growth (Hall:2022) There are two notable changes marked in the global as well as domestic spheres of India at that time. The disintegration of the USSR led to the end of the Cold War, and simultaneously, as Rajani Kothari said, the Congress system, in which Congress as the single largest party dominated the ruling India, declined.…”

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India’s Foreign Policy during Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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This paper examines Indian foreign policy under Atal Bihari Vajpayee in terms of realistic pluralism. It argues that since the 1998 nuclear test, India has developed a slightly different style of realistic foreign policy as a means to achieve its core interests. It is characterized by an emphasis on engagement with contemporary challenges such as neoliberal globalization, terrorism, the issue of disarmament, coping with the changing international order, the decline of multilateral institutions, and new regionalism, etc. To deal with all these issues, India adopted realistic pluralism to accelerate India's economic development and security interests, as well as enhance its status as an emerging power in the international system by continuously promoting its cherished values. This paper explains how a party with its rightist ideology occupies power at a time when Congress fails to deliver people's aspirations. It analyses the key arguments that have been presented in this framework and the way Bajpayee put them into practice. It concludes with the assessment of Bajpayee strategies and future prospects that it will deliver for Indian foreign policy.

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Developing an “India in the World” Framework: Modi Regime’s Political Economy in a Changing World

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2022

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India’s political economy and economic policies can no longer be understood in a purely domestic-oriented or closed economy framework. This paper offers an “India in the world” framework that analyzes how traditional borders of domestic political economy and international politics interact in shaping domestic policy and political economy. In contrast to existing political economy approaches on India, such a framework pays attention to the changing nature of domestic political economy but also how international factors affect and shape domestic imperatives and goals. Simultaneously, domestic developments have important global consequences in terms of increasing (or decreasing) global attention and external economic flows to India, which must be attended to in understanding India’s domestic political economy. I also suggest that the global world is not only a set of exogenous structures and constraints, but rather, the changing global order is deployed and used by state actors to refurbish their political and state power to achieve both domestic and global aims. However, if state actors fail to renew the domestic sources of growth or contribute to crony capitalist or debt-laden domestic growth, then, even attending to global alliances may fail to renew the economic sources of state power and create serious contradictions in India’s domestic and global strategies despite new realignments favoring India at the global level. These ideas help us understand Modi regime’s political economy in a new way.

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India’s foreign policy: nationalist aspirations and enduring constraints

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India’s Foreign Policy during Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

India’s Foreign Policy during Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Developing an “India in the World” Framework: Modi Regime’s Political Economy in a Changing World

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