Explaining Sixty Years of India's Foreign Policy

Ganguly, Šumit; Pardesi, Manjeet S.

doi:10.1080/14736480802665162

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“…Trying to understand India's engagement with Southeast Asia, Ganguly and Pardesi (2009) state that this engagement was spurred by India's domestic economic liberalization, and by seeking purposeful politico-military engagement with Southeast Asia. India's comprehensive strategic engagement with Southeast Asian countries was reflected in its Look East Policy which was introduced as a result of loss of its superpower patron (the USSR) in 1991 when India began to search for new friends and partners.…”

Section: India-southeast Asia Relations In the Post-cold War Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, India included economic and political factors as an incentive to look at Southeast with a fresh start. Ganguly and Pardesi (2009) believe that the history of Indian policy can be categorized into three phases. The first phase of India's foreign policy was the most "idealistic phase of India's foreign policy".…”

Section: The Look East Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This led to a shift of the foreign policy away from the early idealism and made India adopt a "self-help" approach to its foreign policy. The third phase started after the Cold War ended when India adopted a more pragmatic foreign policy conforming to the principles of Realism (Ganguly & Pardesi, 2009;Morgenthau, 2006;Waltz, 1990). Trivedi (2010), on the other hand, mentions that India's Look East Policy went through two distinct phases.…”

Section: The Look East Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several systemic, national and decision-making factors helped shape post independence India's foreign policy choices (Ganguly & Pardesi, 2009;Waltz, 1990). Mazumdar (2011) believes that domestic factors in India affected the development of a grand strategy.…”

Section: Domestic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This change in India's approach happened towards other countries also. For instance, with non-alignment having lost its meaning and appeared irrelevant in an international order where there was only one superpower (Ganguly & Pardesi, 2009;Gordon, 1997;Mazumdar, 2011), the failure of India's non-alignment policy and fall of Soviet Union left, India was left with no choice but to build a new relationship with the United States of America (Chiriyankandath, 2008;Mazumdar, 2011). www.ccsenet.org/ass Asian Social Science Vol.…”

Section: Shift Of Focus To Economic Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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This paper presents a review of the evolution of India's relations with Southeast Asian countries, particularly Malaysia and Singapore. Over the centuries, India and Southeast Asia have shared history, culture and social values. As a result, the relationships between these two regions exhibit an evolving pattern. During the onset of the Cold War when the world had a bipolar system, India made some weak policy choices due to several factors which affected its relations with Southeast Asia adversely. However, after the end of the Cold War and fall of the Soviet Union, India felt a need to strengthen its ties with Southeast Asia and thus launched the Look East Policy. This paper traces the evolution of India's foreign policy towards Malaysia through two defining periods -preand post-Cold War. An attempt is also made to explain this evolution and shift from time to time in India's foreign policy towards Malaysia by highlighting the factors responsible for this. The paper makes important contributions by helping understand the trajectory of relations between India, a major regional power and Malaysia. This paper also briefly covers some historical importance of Singapore to India and Malaysia, since both Malaysia and Singapore are considered as two tiger economies in the Southeast Asian region.

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Section: India-southeast Asia Relations In the Post-cold War Eramentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Look East Policymentioning

confidence: 99%