Prelude to Power: The Meaning of Non-Alignment Before Indian Independence

Keenleyside, T. A.

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“…Nehru’s non-aligned worldview was characterised by: (1) alienation from the foreign policies of Western states in general; (2) an ambivalent attitude towards the main international actors, the United States and the Soviet Union; (3) opposition to all blocs and military alliances […] and (4) a belief in the moral superiority of the Indian approach to international affairs […]. (Keenleyside, 1980, p. 463)…”

Section: Status Without Power: India’s Status-seeking In the Middle E...mentioning

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The Middle East in India’s Quest for Status

Alhasan

2022

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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The temptation to explain India’s foreign policy behaviour in the Middle East through the lens of power alone has obscured a rich history of Indian diplomacy in the region that escapes power-centric explanations. India’s relentless advocacy for Palestinian statehood, its diplomatic support for the weaker Arab states against Israel and Western powers and its role in UN mediation and peacekeeping missions in the region are difficult to explain using a structural realist framework that privileges power alone. Challenging the dominant historiographies, this article introduces the concept of status into the study of India’s behaviour in the Middle East. Based on a re-reading of secondary sources, it argues that status and power have been articulated in various ways in India’s behaviour in the Middle East. Under prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, India pursued status without power, following a primarily normative strategy of status-seeking in the region that afforded India considerable deference at the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement. Following India’s nuclear tests of 1998 and a decade of economic growth, however, power and status converged in India’s behaviour in the Middle East through further alignment with US interests in the region and greater use of naval power projection. By shedding light on the various possible ways in which status and power articulate, this article attempts to step away from the artificial opposition between morals and self-interest as guiding principles of foreign policy. The inquiry into status challenges the prevalent historiographies and analytical frameworks that have dominated the discussion on India’s foreign policy in the Middle East, generating productive openings for reconceptualising and reimagining the field.

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The Middle East in India’s Quest for Status

Alhasan

2022

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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“…So did the creation of the Indian National Army by Subhas Chandra Bose and his alignment with Japanese fascism in the World War II (Cohen 1990;Cohen 1963-64). There were a range of other issues that were controversial, including the broader question of India's attitude to great power relations (Prasad 1962;Keenlyside 1980). These are just a few illustrative differences.…”

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The Re-making of Indian Foreign Policy

Mohan

2009

International Studies

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The article examines the reasons for the absence of effective but informal networks in India that help make and remake a nation’s foreign policy, generate domestic political consensus and win international support. As a rising India reconstructs its foreign policy, a small proto-network that defines its core principles is beginning to emerge. A foreign policy vanguard, however, is no substitute to a more broadly based and deeply rooted structure of decision making. As the new foreign policy network evolves, the International Relations (IR) community can claim its legitimate role in shaping India’s new foreign policy. By shedding its old conformist trap, joining the vigorous public square at home and reconnecting with the world, India’s IR community can set a new foreign policy direction for the nation and offer course corrections when needed.

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Why Culture Matters: Revisiting the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962

Chaudhuri

2009

Journal of Strategic Studies

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Prelude to Power: The Meaning of Non-Alignment Before Indian Independence

Cited by 6 publications

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The Middle East in India’s Quest for Status

The Middle East in India’s Quest for Status

The Re-making of Indian Foreign Policy

Why Culture Matters: Revisiting the Sino-Indian Border War of 1962

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