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.
Peace À La Kyiv
Narendra Modi is on a bold diplomatic mission in an active war zone in the heart of Europe. His visit is the first in 45 years by an Indian prime minister to Poland and the first to independent Ukraine. Polishing Ties Modi’s predecessors encountered a different Poland—a Soviet satellite following Moscow’s lead. When Nehru (1955), […]
Why Modi’s in Moscow
For Delhi, Moscow will remain an important strategic, defence and energy partner. India’s historical investments in the Russia relationship do not just make for a ‘legacy factor’, they are essential to sustain defence preparedness, to ensure an alternate source for energy and technology, and even to serve as a geopolitical hedge in a world between orders.