Policy paralysis within the government, the strategic diffidence of the Congress party’s leadership and the insistence of the BJP on destroying its own credibility as a national party – all have ensured that foreign policy continues to drift without any real sense of direction.At a time when the Indian foreign policy establishment should have been vigorously debating the nature and scope of India’s engagement with the world, it resorted to intellectual gimmickry by coming up with documents such as “Non-Alignment 2.0”, which neither has anything new to say, nor has credible in the context of dramatically evolving global realities.This intellectual vacuum allowed Indian foreign policy to drift without any direction and the result was that as the world was looking to India to shape the emerging international order, India had little to offer except some platitudinous rhetoric that did great disservice to the country’s rising global stature.It is this lack of strategic orientation in foreign policy that often results in a paradoxical situation where on the one hand India is accused by various domestic constituencies of angering this or that country by its actions, on the other hand the country’s relationship with almost all major powers is termed as a “strategic partnership” by the government.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:34:03 +0000
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