There are more continuities from the past in Indian foreign policy currently than the Indian strategic establishment would like to admit.
Author
Anuradha Chenoy, Adjunct Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India; Associate Fellow, Transnational Institute, the Netherlands.
Summary
India seeks to accommodate multiple interests that include aspirations for global status and balance China for which it needs the West; economic development for which it needs Russian hydrocarbons; retaining a leadership role of the global South with neutrality; maintaining relations with the Gulf and ASEAN countries, and so on. This combination results in ambiguities.
Published in: Economic & Political Weekly
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