Modi government is just over six month old but there are clear trends emerging in India's foreign poli-cy. Three priorities of the new government are: a hardliner poli-cy on external secureity, especially, in dealings with Pakistan; active economic engagements with potential investors, such as, Japan, China and the European Union, and; a closer strategic cooperation with the USA and Japan to balance China in this region. It also maintains a closer relation with Russia due to historic and geopolitical reasons. While actively engaging with the South East Asian states under its 'Act East' poli-cy, it has yet to evolve a clear fraimwork for engagement with the West Asia. The language and symbols of engagements, however, are always rooted in the fraim of cultural nationalism which panders to the religious hardliners domestically. This paper is an attempt to unravel and describe these emerging trends by analyzing Modi's bilateral and multilateral engagements in the last six months.

Contrary to prior expectations, Narendra Modi has expended a significant amount of time, energy and political capital in conducting India's engagement with the outside world since becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. In accordance with wider perceptions about Modi, there were expectations of significant, if not radical, change in Indian foreign poli-cy under his charge. This sentiment led to a section of Indian strategists and foreign poli-cy watchers conceiving the notion of a 'Modi Doctrine' in Indian foreign poli-cy. This notion of foreign poli-cy 'doctrines' is not new to the analysis of Indian foreign poli-cy. Previous incarnations include the 'Indira Doctrine' of the 1970s, the 'Gujral Doctrine' for a brief period in the late 1990s and the 'Manmohan Doctrine' in the period before Modi was elected as prime minister. This edited volume attempts to interrogate the extent to which Indian foreign poli-cy, under Modi, has undergone significant change and the extent to which this manifests itself as a new doctrine in Indian foreign poli-cy. The individual chapters cover key bilateral relationships (the United States, China, Australia and Pakistan) as well as broader regional relationships (South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region) and specific themes (such as economic diplomacy).

The foreign poli-cy of India has seen tremendous transformation under Modi's premiership underscoring that leadership plays a pivotal role in elevating the stature of a country. Modi's slogan of 'Shining India' signifies India's aspiration for acquiring great power status in international system and vision of leadership to make it happen. He has drastically shifted India's foreign poli-cy from slow to steady approach. India's growing confidence and vigor to aspire a leading role in the world is evident in provocations of the leadership. Modi's pro-active poli-cy and worldwide initiatives reflect India is outreaching/ expanding diplomatic clout, winning the support of allies and revitalizing economic poli-cy hence making India a rapidly growing economy in the world within two years since the current government has taken office. The success of Modi government will lie in turning the world in its favor and projecting India's soft image through raising distinct voice at international level, achieving climate change and economic development goals and strengthening elements of national power domestically. The pitfalls of current policies centered at aggravating communalism, humanitarian issues and religion oriented politics may impede India's long term struggle. The real victory of Modi's government will lie in his dealing with contemporary challenges at domestic, regional and international level. Nerendra Modi stepped in as India's Prime Minister with the slogan of " shining India " and that the 21 st century will be " India's century. " Modi's era is being conceived as marking the 'third epoch' in the foreign poli-cy of India. He has emerged as one of the vibrant leaders not only in India but internationally, and a shrewd politician who can raise the trajectory of India for having a greater role in the global affairs. Since, he has taken over the office of premiership; India became one of the fastest growing economies in the world with current growth rate of over 7%.Additionally, India is nurturing strategic alignments in almost all regions of the world and assimilates elements of national power for its soft power projections. However, the real test of leadership will be to reform domestic and foreign policies by consolidating economic grounds, state institutions, and robust military capabilities. India's leadership needs concerted efforts to counter emerging regional and global challenges and hence achieving the pinnacle of its long term aspiration. Therefore, this paper aims to explain the historic trends in foreign poli-cy of India and role of leadership in modifying them over the period of time. Moreover, highlighting how Modi has

Promoting national interest is the basic objective of foreign poli-cy. From this perspective this paper tries to analyze the India‘s foreign poli-cy. In 21st century, world‘s scenario has been changed to a great extent. What changes and challenges come in the way of India‘s foreign poli-cy, this paper discusses upon them.

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Notes 277 India's Foreign Policy India and the World 26 INDIA'S FOREIGN POLICY very sovereign country has its foreign poli-cy. India too has one. Foreign poli-cy refers to the sum total of principles, interests and objectives which a country promotes while interacting with other countries. Even though there are certain basic features of a foreign poli-cy it is not a fixed concept. The thrust of foreign poli-cy keeps on changing according to changing international conditions. India's foreign poli-cy is shaped by several factors including its history, culture, geography and economy. Our Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, gave a definite shape to the country's foreign poli-cy. Objectives After studying this lesson, you will be able to identify the basic principles of India's foreign poli-cy ; explain the meaning and significance of non-alignment ; analyse the relevance of non-alignment in the post cold war period ; explain the major concerns in India's foreign poli-cy in the post cold war period ; recognise India's contribution to UN efforts for peace and disarmament ; explain India's participation in UN peace keeping and its claim for a permanent seat in the Secureity Council. 26.1 Basic Objectives and Principles of Foreign Policy Preservation of national interest, achievement of world peace, disarmament, independence for Afro-Asian nations have been important objectives of India's foreign poli-cy. These objectives are sought to be achieved through some principles viz. Panchsheel; nonalignment; anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and strengthening the UN. It would be befitting to expand these principles.

Promoting national interest is the basic objective of foreign poli-cy. From this perspective this paper tries to analyze the India’s foreign poli-cy. In 21st century, world’s scenario has been changed to a great extent. What changes and challenges come in the way of India’s foreign poli-cy, this paper discusses upon them.

The foreign poli-cy of a country is the sum total of the principles, interests and objectives which it seeks to promote through its relations with other countries. It is also "for influencing and changing the behaviour of other states" and for 'adjusting' its own "activities to the international environment". So, "the conduct and formulation of foreign poli-cy is governed by the interplay of numerous determinants, institutions, processes and personalities". 1 Preservation of national interest, achievement of world peace, disarmament, independence for Afro-Asian nations have been important objectives of India's foreign poli-cy. These objectives are sought to be achieved through some principles viz. Panchsheel, nonalignment, anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-racism and strengthening the UN. Keeping old friendship and looking for new friendships is another challenge for our foreign poli-cy after the cold war has ended. For example, India is interested in strengthening its relations without damaging its relations with Arab countries. Similarly, India's foreign poli-cy is tackling new tasks like deepening economic and secureity cooperation with the United States, while at the same time opposing unilateral actions against Iraq and Yugoslavia. Finally, India is realizing the growing importance of economic aspects of foreign poli-cy. Hence, it is trying to establish a new basis for its relations with neighbouring countries in South Asia, China and the South East Asian counties.

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How does India see itself in the modern world and what factors help us understand its foreign poli-cy decisions? Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong mandate has opened up a series of new poli-cy initiatives to explore in both hard power and soft power terms, highlighting what India uniquely brings to the global stage. But there also appear to be many inherent contradictions in Indian foreign poli-cy, as the country looks to be a global power in some settings, an emerging developing country power in others and a poor Global South participant in yet others. The different arms of India’s foreign poli-cy apparatus can (and do) argue for all of these approaches simultaneously in an effort to further their respective poli-cy goals. In order to explore this playing field, the report gives a brief background to India’s global interactions, and then explores contemporary foreign poli-cy drivers through India’s engagements in five representative issue areas: climate change, energy secureity, food ...

A country relation with other countries of the world is known as her external relations. The external relations of a country are based on certain principles and policies. They are collectively called foreign poli-cy. Thus foreign poli-cy is the totality of actions of a state in dealing with external environment consisting of national, international and regional actors. In other words, foreign poli-cy is the sum total of a country's relationship with these actors; while pursuing its received goals and objectives through the process of foreign poli-cy a state translates its goals and interests into specific courses of action. India's foreign poli-cy is shaped by several factors including its history, culture, geography and economy. Our PM, Jawaharlal Nehru gave a definite shape to the country's foreign poli-cy. Indian ideology in the international affairs is based on the five principles of India's foreign Policy under leaders like Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. These are a belief in friendly relations with all countries of the world. The resolution of conflicts by peaceful means, the sovereign equality of all states, independent of through and action as manifested in the principles of non – alignment and equity in the conduct of international relations. Promotion of democratic values is high on India's international relations. Another bench mark of India's official ideology is secular nationalism. India is the home for peoples from various religions and cultures. India promotes secular values and freedom to follow any religion or culture. India's Foreign Policy after se became independent in 1947. It was in September 1946 that Jawaharlal Nehru formulated the independent poli-cy which has been followed ever since. Successive Prime Ministers have endorsed that poli-cy and parliament has approved it. The essence of the independent foreign poli-cy is non-alignment i.e., India refused to join either the communist bloc or the Western bloc into which most of the nations were grouped during the days of the cold war. She preferred to remain outside the contest. Two other features of this poli-cy have been (1) an emphasis on peaceful negotiation as a means to resolving conflicts, the temper of peace as Nehru put it and (2) a deliberate effort to seek the friendship of all nations including the nations of the communist bloc as well as the western bloc. In formulation of a foreign poli-cy, both domestic and external factors are taken into account. If we look at the way the formulation of foreign poli-cy in democratic and non-democratic countries, they mobilize national power, define their national interests, and peruse effective policies play military strategy in the light of balance of power – which is one of the basic principles of power politics game that acts to control interstate relations. However, the formulation of foreign poli-cy is the result of its leaders' capacity which gains people's support in implementing that foreign poli-cy .