The Talk
India’s Foreign Policy faces three challenges: dealing with Pakistan, coping with China’s rise and meeting the challenges of the new generation of economic integration groupings. In developing its strategy for dealing with Pakistan, India cannot count on Pakistan changing either its self-identity based on the two-nation theory, or its state ideology based on radical Islam and predicated on perpetual hostility towards India.
It is clearly against India’s interest to live with a hostile China as it neighbour. The benefits of improved Indo-Chinese relations are immense for both India and China and for the rest of the world.
India is not in a position to join the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), because its economy is not strong and open enough for it to accept, at least, during the next 15–20 years, the far-reaching commitments envisaged under it or under similar economic groupings.
How should India deal with all these critical issues and shape its foreign policy? Prof Dubey analysed these issues and many others in this talk.