Tone shift : India’s dominant foreign policy aims under Modi
Abstract
This article highlights the dominant aims of the current BJP government concerning India’s foreign policy. Using a constructivist-centred and discourse-orientated approach, it distils the three prevailing strategic goals integral to the Narendra Modi led regime, namely; gaining great power recognition; realising a multipolar world order; and enacting the “Act East” policy.The study finds that, although proof of a prevailing “Modi Doctrine” is scarce, the presence of these three aims is notably consistent and prevalent within official discourses and scholarly accounts of the foreign policy preferences of the second NDA. Their repetition and reiteration constitutes evidence of both a significant acceleration and a noteworthy tone shift concerning how Indian foreign policy has been conceptualised and conducted since 2014.
Citation
Ogden , C 2018 , ' Tone shift : India’s dominant foreign policy aims under Modi ' , Indian Politics and Policy , vol. 1 , no. 1 , pp. 3-23 . https://doi.org/10.18278/inpp.1.1.2
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Indian Politics and Policy
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Peer reviewed
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 Policy Studies Organization / the Author. This work is published in an Open Access journal. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://www.ipsonet.org/publications/open-access/inpp/indian-politics-policy-journal-volume-1-number-1-spring-2018 / https://doi.org/10.18278/inpp.1.1.2
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