Emerging Asia: India's Options

Muni, S. D.; Mohan, C. Raja

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“…9–14) also argues that without enduring primacy in one’s own neighbourhood, no nation can become a credible power on the global stage. S. D. Muni and Raja Mohan (2004, p. 318) argue that for India, ‘achieving the objective of becoming one of the principal powers of Asia will depend entirely on India’s ability to manage its own immediate neighbourhood’. Some scholars perceive the sustainability of New Delhi’s engagement in Afghanistan as a ‘test case’ for this growing power (Fair, 2010, p. 189; Pant, 2010, pp.…”

Section: Afghanistan–india–pakistan Engagements Since 2001mentioning

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Geopolitical Dynamics in the Afghanistan–India–Pakistan Triangle

Wani¹

2022

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, the geopolitics of South Asia has been shaped by a dynamic triangular relationship among Afghanistan, India and Pakistan on which depend prospects of peace, governance and stability in the South Asian region. This article examines how and why the Afghanistan–India–Pakistan triangle emerged and how it affects the entire South Asian region as a matter of geopolitics. The article also analyses why major strategic and political shifts occurred in these complex relations after the fall of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2001 and ventures to provide some comments on more recent developments. The evolution and nature of the triangular engagements lie in the overlapping policies of these three countries. Hence, I identify their interactions as constituting a dynamic triangle. This article argues that strategic positioning and concerns and claims for political space have shaped their relationship to such an extent that if something bad happens in one of the three countries, this affects the position of the other two as well. That is why the current re-alignments in Afghanistan have crucial implications for the whole region, not just in terms of their respective foreign policy objectives but also for the long-term harmony, peace, progress and stability in the whole region.

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Section: Afghanistan–india–pakistan Engagements Since 2001mentioning

confidence: 99%

Geopolitical Dynamics in the Afghanistan–India–Pakistan Triangle

Wani¹

2022

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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“…This was evident in the numerous statements both on the part of foreign policy establishment and academicians. For instance, Raja Mohan and S. D. Muni argued that for India, ‘achieving the objective of becoming one of the principal powers of Asia will depend entirely on India’s ability to manage its own immediate neighbourhood’ (Muni & Mohan, 2004, p. 318). Vajpayee, the former Prime Minister echoed the same when he declared that ‘[f]riends can change but not neighbours who have to live together’ (Malone, 2011, p. 102).…”

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Locating Northeast in India’s Neighbourhood Policy: Transnational Solutions to the Problems of a Periphery

Patgiri

Hazarika

2016

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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India’s neighbourhood policy seems to be devoid of any strategy to integrate national interests with the concerns of border regions like Northeast India. India’s security-centric approach prevented a cooperative relationship from emerging with its neighbours, while a deeper and intense engagement with them would have benefitted India and helped solve many of the problems that Northeast India is facing today. However, the recent move by India under the Act East Policy to cultivate a much closer relationship with its eastern neighbours is full of possibilities to make India’s neighbourhood policy more accommodative and sensitive towards the needs of Northeast India. In the light of this, the proposed article intends to examine the nature of India’s neighbourhood policy, to assess its implications for the Northeast and finally, to examine whether the recent transnational engagements can initiate development of the Northeast by relieving it from its peripheral and landlocked status.

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“…This has enabled India to engage significant powers including the US in strategic partnerships with a view to enhance both its capabilities and influence at the regional and global levels. What is notable is the sizeable space and capacity to engage, which is letting India become a leading part of the dense strategic architecture covering issues of security and economic cooperation in South Asia, Asia and beyond at the international level (Muni and Mohan 2004: 313-33).…”

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Contemporary Relevance of Nehru

Singh¹

2012

South Asian Survey

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The subject contemporary relevance of Nehru is unfolded into five sections. First section introduces the subject by contextualising Nehru’s ideas in the contemporary scenario. Nehruvian ideological system and its utility in the age of globalisation constitute the body of this article. His nationalism, socialism and world view are located and discussed in the second, third and fourth sections, respectively. Nehru’s idea of composite culture, contested by cultural nationalism from the one end and ethno-nationalism from the other end of spectrum comprises the second section. The third section discusses the conception, consolidation, retreat and revival of Nehruvian model of economic development in the light of Washington Consensus and Post-Washington Consensus. His idea of socialism and the mixed economy are debated in liberal, neoliberal and post-neoliberal scenario. His world view faced rough weather during the second and third phase of India’s foreign policy. The former was set in motion after his death, whereas the latter started taking shape in the Post-Soviet world, which has acquired the hegemonic overtones. Contemporary significance of Nehru’s world view in the hegemonic world is probed in the fourth section. The last section sums up the discussion in the form of concluding observations.

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Emerging Asia: India's Options

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Geopolitical Dynamics in the Afghanistan–India–Pakistan Triangle

Geopolitical Dynamics in the Afghanistan–India–Pakistan Triangle

Locating Northeast in India’s Neighbourhood Policy: Transnational Solutions to the Problems of a Periphery

Contemporary Relevance of Nehru

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