India’s Search for a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy

Arijit Mazumdar
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Arijit Mazumdar: Arijit Mazumdar is Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. arijit_mazumdar@stthomas.edu

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, 2011, vol. 67, issue 2, 165-182

Abstract: During much of the Cold War, India chose to pursue a non-aligned foreign policy posture. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War forced India to redefine its foreign policy and search for a new place in the emerging international order. However, almost 20 years on, India’s foreign policy still appears to lack a coherent strategic doctrine. This article identifies some of the domestic factors that hampered the development of a post-Cold War ‘grand strategy’. It argues that the emergence of coalition governments at the national level since the early 1990s, the country’s federal structure, weaknesses in India’s foreign policy institutions and the lack of a strategic culture within the country together constrain India’s search for a post-Cold War foreign policy.

Keywords: India; foreign policy; non-alignment; coalition governments; federalism; foreign policy institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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