Bharatiya Janata Party, the Rise of Modi and Indian Foreign Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Raja Qaiser Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Bharatiya Janata Party ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

scholarly journals Domestic Dynamics on Foreign Policy: India's Withdrawal from Regional Comprehensive Partnership Agreement (RCEP) Negotiations

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Noudy Naufal
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Core Mass ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Bharatiya Janata Party ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
Economic Partnership ◽  
Partnership Agreement ◽  
Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

India’s decision to withdraw from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) has been one of the shocking event in the development of international trade. Not only obstructing many regionalist agenda between India and the whole of Asia-Pacific region, this decision is considered to be in the exact opposite of India’s attempts to direct its foreign policy towards its eastern neighbours, especially on the East and Southeast Asia, through India’s participations in several free trade agreements. This thesis will attempt to explain India’s withdrawal from RCEP negotiation by looking at domestic factors. It argues that domestic pressures are the main factors for India to withdraw from RCEP’s negotiation rounds. In this research, the author will use conceptual framework developed by Thomas Risse-Kappen to classify the influences of domestic actors on foreign policy of a country based on its political system and societal groups to understand more the influences of domestic actors to Indian foreign policy. This research also shows that apart from domestic stakeholders perceptions that  the country’s membership in the RCEP doesn’t benefit their economic interests, huge pressures came especially from Hindu nationalist groups, especially from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as the core mass support of the current government’s party under the premiership of Narendra Modi (Bharatiya Janata Party – BJP), has been one of the major domestic pressures to understand the roots on India’s withdrawal from RCEP’s negotiation rounds.

Book review: Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, and Mélissa Levaillant (Eds), Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-421
Author(s):  
Vikash Chandra
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

Mischa Hansel, Raphaëlle Khan, and Mélissa Levaillant (Eds), Theorizing Indian Foreign Policy. New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. x + 225, £29.99 (Paperback). ISBN 978147246238 (hardback), ISBN 9781315551197 (e-book).

The Influence of Business and Media on Indian Foreign Policy

India Review ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjaya Baru
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

India and the World

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Malone ◽  
C. Raja Mohan ◽  
Srinath Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Extensive Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy ◽  
Over Time

India has emerged as a leading voice in global affairs in the past two decades. Its fast-growing domestic market largely explains the ardour with which Delhi is courted by powers great and small. India is also becoming increasingly important to global geostrategic calculations, being the only Asian country with the heft to counterbalance China over time. Nevertheless, India’s foreign policy has been relatively neglected in the existing literature. ThisHandbook, edited by three widely recognized students of the topic, provides an extensive survey of India’s external relations. The authors include leading Indian scholars and commentators of the field and several outstanding foreign scholars and practitioners. They address factors in Indian foreign policy flowing from both history and geography and also discuss key relationships, issues, and multilateral forums through which the country’s international relations are refracted.

The Pragmatic Challenge to Indian Foreign Policy

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepa Ollapally ◽  
Rajesh Rajagopalan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

Indian foreign policy

1985 ◽  
Vol 74 (295) ◽  
pp. 230-239
Author(s):  
Ashok Kapur
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

Indian foreign policy as public history: globalist, pragmatist and Hindutva imaginations

India Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 565-588
Author(s):  
Shibashis Chatterjee ◽  
Udayan Das
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public History ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy

Indian South Pacific turn: causes and possible consequences

2021 ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Kupriyanov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Indian Politics ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Indian Foreign Policy ◽  
Near Future

Until recently, Oceania was on the periphery of Indian foreign policy. This was due to a number of historical, political and economic reasons: the polities of Oceania historically weren’t a part of the Indian Ocean world; they gained independence too late, and the volume of India's trade with most of them is insignificant. The situation began to change after Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, but this process soon stalled. However, in recent months, there has been a sharp surge in Indian interest in Oceania. In the author's opinion, this is due to three processes: India's desire to enlist the support of its solar energy initiatives, the awareness of the weakness of its strategy of containing China in the Indian Ocean and and the formation of a triple informal alliance with the participation of India, Australia and France, which seems beneficial for these countries. The article analyzes the main imperatives and tasks of India, shows the process of their changes. The author points out that Fiji has historically played a major role in Indian politics in Oceania, but notes that in the near future Indian interest in Papua New Guinea and Tonga, two other island countries with their own armed forces, will grow. The article describes the existing interaction between India and the countries of the South Pacific and promising fields of cooperation. The author notes that Indian expansion in the region opens up new prospects for Russia and puts before it the question of formulating its own Indo-Pacific strategy, which would be combined with the Indian vision.

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