India's Foreign Policy under Modi Government

Year 2014, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 101 - 117, 05.02.2015

Rajan Kumar

Abstract

Modi government is just over six month old but there are clear trends emerging in India’s foreign policy.  Three priorities of the new government are:  a hardliner policy on external security, especially, in dealings with Pakistan; active economic engagements with potential investors, such as, Japan, China and the European Union, and; a closer strategic cooperation with the USA and Japan to balance China in this region. It also maintains a closer relation with Russia due to historic and geopolitical reasons. While actively engaging with the South East Asian states under its ‘Act East’ policy, it has yet to evolve a clear framework for engagement with the West Asia.

The language and symbols of engagements, however, are always rooted in the frame of cultural nationalism which panders to the religious hardliners domestically. This paper is an attempt to unravel and describe these emerging trends by analyzing Modi’s bilateral and multilateral engagements in the last six months.

Keywords

India’s foreign policy, Narendra Modi, Act East, BJP, NDA, SAARC, BRICS, Modi in

Modi Hükümeti Döneminde Hindistan Dış Politikası

Abstract

Modi Hükümeti kurulalı altı aydan biraz fazla olsa da Hindistan dış politikasındaki yönelimler
belirginleşiyor. Yeni Hükümetin üç önceliği söz konusu: özellikle Pakistan’la ilişkisinde müfrit bir dış güvenlik politikası, Japonya, Çin ve Avrupa Birliği gibi potansiyel yatırımcılarla etkin ekonomik taahhütler
ve Çin’in bölgedeki gücünü dengelemek adına ABD ve Japonya’yla daha yakın bir stratejik
işbirliği. Aynı zamanda tarihsel ve jeopolitik sebeplerden ötürü Rusya ile yakın ilişkilerini korumayı da
içeriyor. Zira “Act East” politikası çerçevesinde Güney Doğu Asya devletlerine yönelik etkin bir politika
izlemesi ancak Batı Asya’ya yönelik taahhütlerini açık bir çerçevede geliştirmesine bağlı. Oysa taahhütlerin
dili ve sembolleri daima içerideki dini sertlik yanlılarını cezbeden bir kültürel milliyetçilik
çerçevesinde oluşuyor. Bu makale Modi Hükümeti’nin son altı aylık ikili ve çok taraflı dış politika taahhütlerini
tahlil ederek yeni ortaya çıkan yönelimleri betimlemeyi ve çözümlemeyi amaçlamaktadır.

Keywords

Hindistan Dış Politikası, Narendra Modi, Act East, BJP, SAARC, BRICS, Modi Japonya’da, Modi ABD’de, Xi Jinping Hindistan’da, Dünya Ticaret Örgütü

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