Arnaud d’ANDURAIN - Foreign Policy: Between Isolation and Powerlessness

Pouvoirs n°90 - L’Inde - septembre 1999 - p.125-138

India has entered a transition period. The principles that have guided its foreign policy over the past fifty years are no longer adapted to the multipolar world that is replacing the Cold War. From the Cold War, India has inherited its isolation, since the non-aligned movement which it promoted with others has partly lost its reason for being. India, which does not belong to any alliance, has also delayed opening its economy, unlike the rest of Asia. Nevertheless India wishes to establish itself as one of the poles of tomorrow’s world. Gaining power status now requires a more demanding attitude. The 1998 nuclear tests represent at once a manifestation of this emerging power and an admission of the strategic isolation that India is trying to overcome. Résumé

Référence électonique : Arnaud d’ANDURAIN, "Foreign Policy: Between Isolation and Powerlessness", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°90, 1999, p.125-138. Consulté le 01-06-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Foreign-Policy-Between-Isolation.html