3 India: Between Principles and Pragmatism

Aneja, Urvashi

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“…In contrast with China, India does not have a clear philosophy that links security, peace, and development but sees effective governance institutions as essential to stability and peace. Although a democracy—unlike traditional donors—it does not see one form of governance system as better than another as long as the chosen system is inclusive and locally rooted (Aneja 2020; Choedon 2021). India frames its assistance in terms of shared experiences with other countries of the Global South, stating, “the Government of India's approach to Development Partnership has been shaped by India's struggle for independence and solidarity with other colonized and developing countries ….…”

Section: Historical Legacies Development and Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although much smaller than China's, India's development assistance also has increased significantly in the past couple of decades, rising four‐fold and reaching $1.6 billion in 2017 (Aneja 2020). Unlike China, which has placed emphasis on infrastructure development and economic development support, India has focused on strengthening governance capabilities of recipient states.…”

Section: Historical Legacies Development and Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Subsequent strategic and defense dialogues also focused on issues of terrorism, extremism, and maritime security (Mishra 2023). Thanks to this long-term partnership, thousands of African military personnel have been trained in India (Aneja 2020).…”

Section: Historical Legacies Development and Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Historically, India was reluctant to engage in democracy promotion, seeing it as intervening in other states' internal affairs. Rather, as Aneja points out, it supported national governance institutions that promoted stability without regard to political system (Aneja 2020). As India's competition with China for influence in Africa grew, it sought to differentiate itself from China and has moved slowly and reluctantly in the direction of democracy assistance if not promotion, focusing on technical courses on election management and good governance (Venkatachalam and Banik 2022).…”

Section: Emerging and Traditional Donors: Points Of Convergence And D...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging Donors' Engagements in Africa: China, India, and the Localizing Peacebuilding and Development Interventions

Paczyńska

2023

Negotiation Journal

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Today's development and peacebuilding donor landscape is much more complex than it was just a few decades ago. In addition to traditional donors, emerging donors have come to play much more prominent roles in development and peacebuilding assistance. This article explores these shifting dynamics of the donor landscape by analyzing China's and India's engagements with African states. In particular, it investigates whether these two emerging donors' development and peacebuilding interventions are framed around the localization of aid concerns that have animated traditional donors. The article shows that nationally led and nationally owned development and peacebuilding priorities are central to the provision of aid by these emerging donors. However, neither China nor India has explicitly joined the localization of aid debate. The term “localization” does not appear in the key documents produced by the government agencies that oversee these countries' development and peacebuilding interventions. Moreover, neither China nor India has signed onto the various international agreements that place localization at the forefront of traditional donor agendas. This article argues that the local is important to both China and India. However, for these two countries, localization is reflected in the emphasis on nationally led and nationally owned development and peacebuilding priority setting; and the promotion of state capacity and strength rather than as a way of working with civil society and nongovernmental organizations. These engagements with the local by China and India in the context of Africa have shifted over time as their footprints across the continent have expanded and their global aspirations have shifted.

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Section: Historical Legacies Development and Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Legacies Development and Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Historical Legacies Development and Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Emerging and Traditional Donors: Points Of Convergence And D...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emerging Donors' Engagements in Africa: China, India, and the Localizing Peacebuilding and Development Interventions

Paczyńska

2023

Negotiation Journal

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India’s Development and Peacebuilding Assistance to the Conflict-Affected States: Case-study of Democratic Republic of Congo

Choedon

2023

International Studies

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The rationale for India’s development and peacebuilding assistance and the mechanisms employed have changed over the period. India’s assistance is starkly different from the way the developed countries do peacebuilding. This difference is due to India’s different historical experiences, socio-economic conditions and lived experiences. The conflict-affected states have appreciated India’s assistance due to the suitability and appropriateness of technical assistance, training and educational programs to their socio-economic context. India’s ways of development and peacebuilding assistance have similarities with the 2016 UN concept of ‘sustaining peace’, which has been formulated to liberate peacebuilding from the strict limitation to post-conflict contexts. However, both the western and non-western donors have a certain reservation about ‘sustaining peace’ concept, for different reasons. The way forward to implement the UN ‘sustaining peace’ is to facilitate both the western and non-western donors to learn lessons from each other’s experiences and view their varied approaches as complementary rather than contradictory.

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“New” State Actors and Conflict-Affected States: Confronting Violence, Shifting Ambitions, and Adjusting Principles

Paczyńska¹

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Over the past couple of decades, “new” state actors, such as Brazil, China, Russia, India, Turkey, and countries of the Arab Gulf, have been playing an increasingly prominent role in assistance provision to conflict-affected states. Skeptical of the liberal peace-building model, they have emphasized supporting economic development and avoided promoting political reforms, viewing them as too interventionist in domestic affairs of conflict-affected states. Rather, they have emphasized solidarity, cooperation, mutual support, and respect for state sovereignty; and they are committed to non-intervention norms. However, the foreign policies of “new” state actors have been far from static. This article argues that these norms mask more complex relationships between “new” state actors and conflict-affected states. Historically, the “new” actors have tended to adhere less to non-intervention norms in their immediate neighborhood. Now, as they become more deeply engaged with countries emerging out of violent conflict, have come to aspire playing more prominent global roles, and the competition among them has risen, their adherence to principles of non-interference is under strain and policies regarding issues of peace and security are shifting.

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3 India: Between Principles and Pragmatism

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Emerging Donors' Engagements in Africa: China, India, and the Localizing Peacebuilding and Development Interventions

Emerging Donors' Engagements in Africa: China, India, and the Localizing Peacebuilding and Development Interventions

India’s Development and Peacebuilding Assistance to the Conflict-Affected States: Case-study of Democratic Republic of Congo

“New” State Actors and Conflict-Affected States: Confronting Violence, Shifting Ambitions, and Adjusting Principles

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