India’s Peacemaking: Will it work?
The geopolitical balancing act is important, given that India has strong equities in both the warring camps, the US and Russia. Both these global powers are critical to India’s strategic, security, energy and technology needs. And a multi-pronged engagement with all major powers is central to India’s current foreign policy doctrine. But India’s approach in the Central Europe outreach clearly went beyond geopolitical balancing, to serve multiple other important objectives.