India’s Foreign Policy and its Challenges

Abstract

Most nations and large ones at that do not simply alter their worldwide orientation. States tend to be conventional about foreign policy. Fundamental changes in foreign policy take place only when there is a radical change either at home or in the world. Much as the ascent of Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s shaped key changes in Chinese foreign policy, India’s associations with the world have seen a fundamental alteration over the last decade and a half. A number of factors were at work in India. The old political and economic order at home had distorted and outwardly the end of the Cold War detached all the old benchmarks that guided India’s foreign policy. Many of the center viewpoints of the older system had to throw away and consensus generated on fresh ones. The fall down of the Soviet Union and the new wave of financial globalization left India scrambling to find new anchors for its conduct of outer relations.

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“…Prime Minister Narendra Modi has played a significant role in pragmatically highlighting the importance of the Neighbourhood and Extended Neighbourhood policy to fulfil India’s global aspiration. A proper blend of these policies with the vision of NEP can be an effective tool and strategy to expand and enhance India’s power and position in the concerned countries and regions (Kumar, 2016). The dense diplomatic outreach of Prime Minister Modi towards West Asia and the Gulf in particular has brought the region into strategic loop of India.…”