How India Navigates a World in Transition

Author(s): Boas Lieberherr
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2023: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 83-109
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Place: Zürich

India’s foreign policy seeks to avoid overdependence on any country while leveraging diverse partnerships in a quest for security and status as an emerging major power. The current international balance of power and closer cooperation with the US and its allies increase India’s global influence, while significant differences about ideas of order remain. At the national and regional levels, India faces major challenges. Its first foreign policy objective – and limitation – remains economic and social development.

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India's Membership in Selected Multilateral Formats

India and China's Trade with South Asia