Puneet Singhal

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Puneet Singhal

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India's Foreign Policy

India's Foreign Policy

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Indian Foreign Policy: An Analysis

Riding on the factors like high economic growth, tax reforms, successful introduction of new technologies in defense and communication, the international status of India has radically grown over the last decade. Increasingly, it's effort to steadily integrate with the international market economy and induction of nuclear technology in energy sector and focus on non-conventional source of energy like forming solar alliance has made India a global player and a potential leader. India's image is slowly evolving from a low income country with poor infrastructure and mass poverty into a country with a global presence. In this regard, foreign policy is a crucial factor in it's ambition of becoming a super power. Here, it is extremely critical to form a balance and Harmony in foreign in foreign policy to capitalize on its high economic growth. Some core concerns of India's foreign policy such as kasmir issue, nuclearisation, terrorism and India's position in South Asia with regard to counter China's aggressive stand in the region requires strong diplomatic stand.

In past, India's foreign policy lacks coherence and certainty although it was high on morality and a leader of non-aligned states is definitely a matter of appreciation.Despite achieving a nuclear state tag it was very much unambitious and indifferent to achieve a dominating place in the world. Many researchers and scholars criticise India that it is conducting nuclear tests on 11 may and 13 may 1998 without an explicit desire to use nuclear weapon. They ask, was India playing poker , albeit in name of morality and sweet reasonableness?

It definitely proves the ambiguities of india's foreign policy with reference to India's military capacity, arms procurement and missile deployment. India's doctrine underpin India's military capacities. Nehru and Gandhian legacy is clashing with contemporary requirement of Indian state to protect itself from various state and non-state actors like militancy in Kashmir, naxalities in central and east India and infiltraters in boundaries with Pakistan. India's foreign policy is suffering from the security dilemma. As a result, foreign policy analysis falls between two stools- neither as international relations nor as domestic politics. India has failed to act in accordance with it's emerging power and status. It's policies appear to vacillate between appeasement and aggression. The need of the hour is to emerge as a nation with assertion of national self-interest. However, the policy rhetoric has changed with specific prime ministers but in sum, the doctrine remains abstract and ambiguous.


These criticism doesn't demonstrate only negation aspects. Gradually, Sushma Swaraj as foreign minister has proven India's stand and give clear signals that foreign policy will both cater to interests and demands of domestic front as well as deal with International counterparts across the negotiating table. NDA as a ruling alliance with partners like hard line Hindu nationalist party, Shiv Sena and powerful South Indian regional party , the DMK. The result of trying to placate all of these diverse interest, put separate constraints on Indian diplomacy. The Emergence of a stable foreign policy will bring noticeable and congruence developments.


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