Evolution of ‘India’s Neighbourhood First Policy’ Since Independence

Aryal, Saroj Kumar; Bharti, Simant Shankar

doi:10.1007/s12115-023-00819-y

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“…This is a top priority for nations on the periphery, with a focus on promoting trade, connectivity, and interactions among individuals. This foundation that India is building establishes a long-term connection between its domestic aspirations and its foreign policy objectives, playing a significant role in shaping policies related to a Multipolar World (Aryal, 2023). India's Neighbourhood First Policy has become significant in the region, to promote peaceful relations, enhance economic development, and foster regional integration.…”

Section: India's Security Policies and Strategies In The Indian Oceanmentioning

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China and India in the Indian Ocean: A Study of Strategic Importance and its Influence on Geopolitical Dynamics and Security Policies

Freitas

2024

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This article explores the strategic significance of the Indian Ocean for China and India, examining how their actions influence geopolitical dynamics and security policies. The Indian Ocean, a vital global trade route, has seen increased attention from both nations through their naval expansions, infrastructure investments, and diplomatic engagements. This has sparked debates about potential competition, strategic rivalries, and the implications for regional security. The study aims to understand the impact of China and India's activities in the Indian Ocean and their potential for cooperation or conflict. The research question focuses on how these actions affect regional security. The methodology employed is a qualitative research approach, incorporating a literature review, document analysis, case studies, and a comparative analysis of China and India's strategies in the Indian Ocean. The results highlight the Indian Ocean as a critical geopolitical arena undergoing significant transformations due to the actions of China and India. The rise of these two powers has the potential to either lead to conflict and instability or contribute to regional stability by providing public goods such as anti-piracy patrols and disaster relief efforts.

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Section: India's Security Policies and Strategies In The Indian Oceanmentioning

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China and India in the Indian Ocean: A Study of Strategic Importance and its Influence on Geopolitical Dynamics and Security Policies

Freitas

2024

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“…On the other hand, China is an important Asian giant in this region as a key active economic player. China is influencing South Asian geopolitics to get help from Pakistan, and now Afghanistan and Nepal are supporting China's geostrategic position (Aryal & Bharti, 2023). There is huge negativity of China's 'debt-trap diplomacy', which undermines its position in the world.…”

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China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in South Asia and Its Policy Challenges to India in the Region

Bharti

2023

South Asian Survey

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The purpose of this article is to describe China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in South Asia. This study also assesses China’s deeper economic cooperation with India’s neighbouring countries in light of BRI projects in the region. Further, this article looks towards India’s position with South Asian countries to counter China’s aggressiveness towards the region. India had refused to join as a partner country of China’s BRI initiative from South Asia. Similarly, India launched the ‘Neighbourhood-First Policy’ to strengthen its political and economic cooperation with South Asian countries to counter China’s geopolitical and geostrategic agenda. China’s policy ‘encircling India’ and ‘Strings of Pearls’ theory working in the South Asia region have been threatening India in the context of BRI expansion in the region. India has deep observations against China’s BRI project that is crossing from the disputed territory of India between Pakistan from Kashmir’s Gilgit–Baltistan region (Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir). In light of the abovementioned causes, this article elucidates principal conflict zones between India and China in the context of South Asia for economic and political connectivity with the subcontinent countries.

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“…This remains true if we are talking about India in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Authors have extensively pointed out India’s inconsistency in terms of shaping ‘Neighbourhood Policy’ (see Aryal, 2022; Aryal & Nair, 2021; Aryal & Bharti,2023). In India, it has always been customary to view its neighbours through the prisms of politics and security.…”

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State of the Regional Integration Within South Asian Association for Regional Organisation (SAARC): Assessment of India’s Leadership

Aryal,

Bharti

2023

South Asian Survey

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South Asia is one of the least integrated regions in terms of trade and people-to-people contact. With the goal of promoting regionalism, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was founded in 1985 and now has eight South Asian countries as a member (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). India alone controls more than 80% of all variables, including economy, size, and population. Thus, the entire regional integration of South Asia has been and will continue to be dependent on India’s intentions regarding SAARC. As a result of several bilateral disagreements between the organisation’s member states, the SAARC has been dubbed a dysfunctional, talk-shop, and dead organisation. Having said that, this article aims to investigate the role of India as a regional leader as well as its intention and approach towards South Asian integration. Similarly, this document also assesses the effect of India’s leadership on the regional integration of South Asia. This article is based on the qualitative method of research and thus uses discourse analysis as the main methodology. As primary sources, discourse analyses in international relations often examine official speeches, declarations, legislative debates, diplomatic documents, interviews, newspapers, and editorials. Other scholarly works, novels, and conceptual histories can be analysed in addition to these.

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Evolution of ‘India’s Neighbourhood First Policy’ Since Independence

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

China and India in the Indian Ocean: A Study of Strategic Importance and its Influence on Geopolitical Dynamics and Security Policies

China and India in the Indian Ocean: A Study of Strategic Importance and its Influence on Geopolitical Dynamics and Security Policies

China’s Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in South Asia and Its Policy Challenges to India in the Region

State of the Regional Integration Within South Asian Association for Regional Organisation (SAARC): Assessment of India’s Leadership

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