Greater engagement with Europe and dealing with its multiple contradictions must necessarily be important elements of India’s international relations. Discuss (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 3 years
KEY POINTS
· For India, an important strategic priority today is to rebalance the Indo-Pacific that has been destabilised by China’s assertiveness in the region.
· The difficulty of integrating Russia into a European order on mutually acceptable terms.
· The growing tension between the US and Europe. Since the Second World War, Europe has relied on the US for its security, but it never stopped resenting the American dominance over its geopolitics.
· The ambition to construct a strong geopolitical personality for the EU is hobbled by divisions over the role of Russia and the US in the region as well as the historically rooted mutual suspicions among European states.
· This is compounded by the reluctance to spend more on defence and the inability to develop collective defence arrangements outside of NATO led by the US.
· The sharpening struggle for Indian independence, and more broadly the liberation of Asia between the two World Wars, inevitably involved exploiting the contradictions between different imperial powers.
· This was complicated, however, by rapid realignment among the major powers friends became adversaries and enemies became allies. The Indian and Asian national movements were deeply divided in coping with the shifting great power dynamic.
KAUSHIK SRINIVASH R 3 years
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IAS Parliament 3 years
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