India’s Foreign Policy in the Changing Global Order: Opportunities and Challenges

Abhijith Prasobh

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.82723

India’s Foreign Policy in the Changing Global Order: Opportunities and Challenges

Author(s)	Abhijith Prasobh
Country	India
Abstract	In a world moving away from the post-Cold War unipolar towards a more competitive, complex and multipolar world, India's foreign policy has now embarked on a new and crucial phase of transformation. China's rise is now creating opportunities and strategic competition between the US and China, the Russia-Ukraine war, climate change, energy insecurity, disruption of technology and supply chain are presenting opportunities and challenges to India. The foreign policy of India in the evolving global order has been analysed in this research paper till December 2023. It contends that in India foreign policy is becoming more strategic and more aligned with multi-alignment and issue-based partnerships, as well as by seeking national interest in the country's increasingly fragmented international environment. India's active participation in the G20 Presidency, the Quad, its Indo-Pacific policy, its neighbourhood policy and its focus on the Global South indicate India's desire to play a balancing role, development partner and civilisational state. But India is also grappling with large issues such as the China border issue, the security of marine waters and challenges stemming from influencing the global sea order, pressure from great-power competition, energy import dependency and the requirement for Climate finance. But India also has huge challenges to deal with, such as China border dispute, South Asian instability, reliance on energy imports, pressure from great-power competition, climate finance demands and security threats in maritime waters, and the need to maintain strategic autonomy in a polarised world. The paper ends by concluding that a successful foreign policy for India in the future will require that it be able to combine economic strength, military power, diplomatic flexibility and credible leadership in multilateral institutions.
Keywords	India’s foreign policy, global order, strategic autonomy, Indo-Pacific, G20, Global South, China, Russia, United States, multilateralism
Field	Sociology > Politics
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 6, November-December 2023
Published On	2023-12-08
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i06.82723

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