<scp>I</scp>ndian Foreign Policy and International Humanitarian Norms: A Role‐Theoretical Analysis

Hansel, Mischa; Möller, M.

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“…14 The identification of the types of roles of India has proven to be relatively consistent with other works on India’s foreign policy (e.g. Friedrichs 2019 ; Ganguly 2018a , b ; Gupta et al 2019 ; Hansel and Möller 2015 ; Plagemann and Destradi 2019 ).…”

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The “I” in BRICS: leadership traits of Indian prime ministers and India's role adaptation to rising status in world politics

Kesgin

Wehner

2021

J Int Relat Dev

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This paper inquires theoretically into how leaders act and react to the state role of rising power through the case study of India. It brings together role theory and leadership trait analysis, and contends that there is a puzzling interplay between rising status and leaders’ characteristics. We project that leaders’ traits and styles condition how they enact roles. India and its leaders offer a suitable case for investigating this issue. Since the economically unstable early 1990s, India has gone through a relatively successful era of global emergence. Thus, we examine the relationship between India’s roles and the leadership profiles of Prime Ministers Atal Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh and Narenda Modi, specifically their belief in the ability to control events and the need for power. We find especially in Vajpayee and Singh that their traits can help explain India’s foreign policy roles and in Modi (first term only) a leader vulnerable to contextual winds. We argue that the interplay of leaders’ traits and roles, as expressions of both material and social dimensions, helps assess how they make sense of their country’s rising within both the regional and international systems.

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“…They—as we do, too—rely on secondary sources to identify types of self-conceived identities and behavioural manifestations of these roles by India. Otherwise, in their analyses of foreign policy documents and utterances of political elites, Hansel and Möller ( 2015 ) find similar roles in India’s foreign policy from the 2000s onwards.…”

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Wehner

2021

J Int Relat Dev

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“…Most studies based on role theory have focused on interpreting the historical trajectory of events and narratives of political elites to identify the roles a state may perform (Wehner & Thies, , p. 421). Such narratives prescribe what is allowable or not encouraged in foreign policy options and national role performance (Hansel & Möller, , pp. 80–81).…”

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Malaysian Foreign Policy Toward Singapore From Mahathir to Badawi and Najib: A Role Theory Assessment

Han

2017

Asian Politics and Policy

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By employing role theory, this article shall argue that changes in Malaysia's national role conceptions from Mahathir to Abdullah Badawi and Najib Razak have contributed to the improvement of Malaysia‐Singapore relations in recent years. Under Mahathir, Malaysia's national role conception as a “close and important neighbor” to Singapore accentuated a “senior‐junior” distinction between Malaysia and Singapore. This led to a clash of national roles between Malaysia and Singapore and resulted in bilateral contentions. For Badawi and Najib, Malaysia is also a close and important neighbor to Singapore. However, both leaders have reconceptualized Malaysia's national role conception into an “important and symbiotic partner” to de‐emphasize Singapore as a negative “historical and significant other,” and promote cooperation to improve bilateral relations. Malaysia's additional role as an ASEAN member complements its symbiotic partnership with Singapore.

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“…Role theory offers greater explanatory power in explaining why state identity changes by capturing the dynamics of structural and societal aspects of state identity (Grossman 2005). The notion of identity implies a very rigid set of ideas and behaviours (Hansel and Möller 2015). Roles, however, imply more diverse and multifaceted relations.…”

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Role conflict and the limits of state identity: the case of Indonesia in democracy promotion

Karim

2016

The Pacific Review

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This paper aims to analyse why Indonesia projects democracy as a state identity by taking on the role of democracy promoter? This paper argues that Indonesia's aspiring role as a democracy promoter is not a manifestation of a firm and coherent democratic political culture, which is more likely to be a permanent feature of states. Thus, rather than seeing it as firmly established state identity, instead, Indonesia's democratic identity should be seen as role conception articulated by foreign policy elites in its quest for international prestige. Its role as a democracy promoter has enabled Indonesia to enhance its other roles conceptions such as an intellectual leader in ASEAN as well as a bridge-builder at the global level. However, this paper further argues that Indonesia's role as a democracy promoter has also been hindered due to the inter-role conflicts arising from its enactment of multiple roles. As a result, Indonesia's enactment of the role as democracy promoter have relatively less impactful towards democratisation in the region. To substantiate this argument, the paper examines Indonesia's strategies in promoting democracy and human rights in three case studies, namely Indonesia's role in mainstreaming human rights in ASEAN, Indonesia's democracy promotion through the Bali Democracy Forum, and Indonesia's engagement toward democratization in Myanmar.

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Indian Foreign Policy and International Humanitarian Norms: A Role‐Theoretical Analysis

Cited by 14 publications

References 37 publications

The “I” in BRICS: leadership traits of Indian prime ministers and India's role adaptation to rising status in world politics

The “I” in BRICS: leadership traits of Indian prime ministers and India's role adaptation to rising status in world politics

Malaysian Foreign Policy Toward Singapore From Mahathir to Badawi and Najib: A Role Theory Assessment

Role conflict and the limits of state identity: the case of Indonesia in democracy promotion

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