Can constituent states influence foreign and security policy? Coalitional dynamics in India

Jaganathan, Madhan Mohan

doi:10.1080/01436597.2019.1640060

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“…It also shone a light on the widened scope for subnational politics whereby states respond to policy decisions taken at the national level in ways that adapt, subvert or reinforce these. On occasions where federal politics intersected with transnational solidarities and bilateral relations, it was primarily over ethnic identities (Jaganathan, 2019(Jaganathan, , p. 1522). In the 1980s, one such instance was the Sri Lankan Civil War.…”

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Not Just ‘Somewhere South of Sovereignty and East of Equality’: Indian Strategizing in the Age of Transnational Solidarities

Vivekanandan

2024

Studies in Indian Politics

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South Asia witnessed a number of transnational solidarities, some of which it was home to, others that drew the region into their ambit. Articulations of national identity, evident in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, marked shifting definitions of the politico-cultural community in South Asia. Concurrently, there was a congealing of ideological connections that straddled continents such as the leftist solidarity Afro-Asianism epitomized. How did social imaginaries such as these, variously imbued with nationalist and internationalist ethos, influence India’s self-image? What role did sub-diplomatic solidarities forged by non-state actors such as activists and intellectuals play? In what ways had subnational activism contributed to some of these contested fraternities? Such questions were moot to India’s assessment of its own state capacity in the 1980s and beyond. The article takes as its focus two critical sites of postcolonial India’s international relations: transnational solidarity networks and domestic politics. In doing so, it attempts to offer a granular analysis of the ‘imagined collectivities’ India espoused and the multiplicity of agendas these stood for and which it helped shape.

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Section: Domestic Politics and Indian Foreign Policymentioning

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Not Just ‘Somewhere South of Sovereignty and East of Equality’: Indian Strategizing in the Age of Transnational Solidarities

Vivekanandan

2024

Studies in Indian Politics

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“…We look at two explanatory factors to determine how the interest and influence of regional parties vary on foreign policy decisions: regional preferences and multilevel coalitional arrangements. We first define regional preferences as small, but spatially concentrated constituencies that have held informed and committed preferences (through the intermediary of regional parties) over time and over specific foreign policy issues (Jaganathan, 2019; Plagemann and Destradi, 2015; Sharam et al, 2020). Variation in regional preferences can be observed through the geographical distribution of economic and/or cultural interests relative to foreign policy issues.…”

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How do regional parties influence foreign policy? Insights from multilevel coalitional bargaining in India

Blarel

Willigen

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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When and how do regional parties influence foreign policy in federal democracies with multiparty coalition governments? The existing literature has focused on situations of foreign policy disagreements between subnational parties and the central government in multinational states. By contrast, we argue that under varying conditions, central governments either decide to accommodate the preferences of small regional parties when designing foreign policies, or co-opt these regional parties to push their own foreign policy agenda. Some scholars looked at the role of decentralization and federal power arrangements in providing more control to political sub-units over the external affairs of a state. Other studies showed that certain coalition-building configurations facilitated the inclusion of the concerns of small parties in the foreign policy debate. Bridging these two literatures, we argue that both structural and agential conditions behind regional and national coalition building processes—visible in federal settings—affect foreign policy-making in different ways, and not necessarily toward disagreement and obstruction. To illustrate these hypothesized mechanisms, we look at two case studies in the Indian context: the role of regional parties in the debate over the US–India nuclear deal of 2008 and the role of regional parties in shaping India’s Sri Lanka policy from 2009 to 2014.

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Introduction: Agency and Norm Diffusion Beyond the West

Kolmasova

2023

Norm Diffusion Beyond the West

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Can constituent states influence foreign and security policy? Coalitional dynamics in India

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Not Just ‘Somewhere South of Sovereignty and East of Equality’: Indian Strategizing in the Age of Transnational Solidarities

Not Just ‘Somewhere South of Sovereignty and East of Equality’: Indian Strategizing in the Age of Transnational Solidarities

How do regional parties influence foreign policy? Insights from multilevel coalitional bargaining in India

Introduction: Agency and Norm Diffusion Beyond the West

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