Introduction Harsh V Pant A day might be a long time in politics, but in foreign policy, even a decade is usually not long enough to merit a serious appraisal. The past decade, however, has witnessed a phenomenal change in both the scale and scope of global politics. In India, too, politics experienced tectonic shifts, inevitably affecting the country’s foreign policy. Yet it is not simply that. It is also that India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been personally involved in the realm of external relations, according India a unique place in contemporary international affairs. His selection of S Jaishankar as his second External Affairs Minister in 2019 has allowed India to weather a troubled global environment over the last few years.
Authors
- Attribution
- Harsh V Pant, Ed., “A Decade of Modi's Foreign Policy: India Shows the Way,” ORF Special Report No. 228 , May 2024, Observer Research Foundation.
- Published in
- India
Table of Contents
- Introduction 4
- Harsh V Pant 4
- I 8
- India 8
- and Key Powers 8
- The United States 9
- A True Transformation 9
- Vivek Mishra 9
- China 12
- A Downward Spiral 12
- Antara Ghosal Singh 12
- Russia 15
- A Tightrope Walk 15
- Nandan Unnikrishnan and Rajoli Siddharth Jayaprakash 15
- The European Union 18
- A Blend of Optimism and Tension 18
- Shairee Malhotra 18
- Japan 21
- Aligned, Transformative, and Impactful 21
- Pratnashree Basu 21
- II 24
- India in 24
- Pivotal Geographies 24
- South Asia 25
- Prioritising the Neighbourhood 25
- Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy and Shivam Shekhawat 25
- Indo-Pacific 28
- A Strategic Embrace 28
- Sayantan Haldar and Abhishek Sharma 28
- The Middle East 31
- Reviving Lost Momentum 31
- Kabir Taneja 31
- Africa 34
- A New Heft 34
- Samir Bhattacharya 34
- Central Asia 37
- India’s Strategic Pivot 37
- Ayjaz Wani 37
- Latin America 40
- In Search of a New Dynamism 40
- Hari Seshasayee 40
- III 43
- India 43
- and the Global Order 43
- The UN and WTO 44
- Negotiating for the Global South 44
- Angad Singh Brar 44
- Climate Diplomacy 47
- Domestic Challenges, Global Leadership 47
- Aparna Roy 47
- The Global Nuclear Order 51
- Steadfast Commitment to Disarmament 51
- Kartik Bommakanti 51
- Emerging and Critical Technology 54
- Moving to the Centrestage of Diplomacy 54
- Sameer Patil 54
- Development Cooperation 57
- A New Agenda in India’s Economic Diplomacy 57
- Swati Prabhu 57
- Connectivity 60
- Searching for Resilience and Reach 60
- Prithvi Gupta 60
