TY  - JOUR
T1  - A CONSTRUCTIVIST ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF INDIA’S DOMESTIC IDENTITIES ON ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICIES TOWARDS SOUTH ASIA
TT  - A CONSTRUCTIVIST ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF INDIA’S DOMESTIC IDENTITIES ON ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICIES TOWARDS SOUTH ASIA
AU  - Rafique, Shakaib
PY  - 2021
DA  - September
DO  - 10.30520/tjsosci.974911
JF  - The Journal of Social Science
JO  - TJSS
PB  - Cenk AKSOY
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2587-0807
SP  - 349
EP  - 360
VL  - 5
IS  - 10
LA  - en
AB  - Domestic factors especially national identities of a Nation State influence its foreign policy by distinguishing that country’s perception of “self” from that of “others”. By employing the case study of India, this paper assesses the way India perceives its national identities and the resultant effects on its foreign policies towards South Asia. The paper assesses that in India, its peculiar political construct superimposed by British colonizers and multiple ethno-religious groups stacked together under a Hindutva-inspired political system serve as an aberration from the evolution of indexical “self” of different nationalities in that country. Accordingly, India’s national identity formation is premised on “exclusion” and it attempts to overcome this challenge through externalization of its internal problems towards neighbourhood.
KW  - Constructivist Approach
KW  - Externalizing Internal Challenges
KW  - Hindutva
KW  - Transnational Group
KW  - National Identity
KW  - Domestic Identities
KW  - Neighbourhood Policies
N2  - Domestic factors especially national identities of a Nation State influence its foreign policy by distinguishing that country’s perception of “self” from that of “others”. By employing the case study of India, this paper assesses the way India perceives its national identities and the resultant effects on its foreign policies towards South Asia. The paper assesses that in India, its peculiar political construct superimposed by British colonizers and multiple ethno-religious groups stacked together under a Hindutva-inspired political system serve as an aberration from the evolution of indexical “self” of different nationalities in that country. Accordingly, India’s national identity formation is premised on “exclusion” and it attempts to overcome this challenge through externalization of its internal problems towards neighbourhood.
CR  - Iffat Naheed, Școala Națională de Studii Politice și Administrative (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania
UR  - https://doi.org/10.30520/tjsosci.974911
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1893688
ER  -