Non-Alignment to Strategic Autonomy
This paper explores India’s strategic positioning vis-à-vis the liberal international order (LIO), examining how India has historically both engaged with and asserted autonomy from the Western-led order. It argues that India’s evolving foreign policy—from Nehru’s non-alignment to Modi’s strategic a...
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This paper explores India’s strategic positioning vis-à-vis the liberal international order (LIO), examining how India has historically both engaged with and asserted autonomy from the Western-led order. It argues that India’s evolving foreign policy—from Nehru’s non-alignment to Modi’s strategic autonomy—reflects a deliberate use of specific approaches to create space within the LIO for its unique national interests. The main argument of the paper is that India’s engagement with the LIO has not involved wholesale rejection of the extant LIO framework but rather the selective leveraging and reimagining of liberal principles to preserve India’s strategic interests while promoting a multipolar, more inclusive global order. India’s approach to the LIO from its independence to now has been marked by continuity. Since 1947, India has sought to uphold sovereignty while benefiting from liberal principles, particularly in institutional and economic domains. The paper draws on the theoretical framework of defensive realism and institutional neoliberalism to deconstruct and highlight India’s policy approach to the LIO, which is characterized by pragmatism and suggests that India could be described as a transactional power.
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| spelling | doaj-art-94bdcf86c6d64bdba16195a07b2c6f8c2025-08-20T03:27:56ZengKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingPoliteja1733-67162391-67372025-06-01222(96/2)10.12797/Politeja.22.2025.96.2.04Non-Alignment to Strategic AutonomyJakub Zajączkowski0Manish Jung Pulami1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0334-0989University of WarsawThe University of Osaka This paper explores India’s strategic positioning vis-à-vis the liberal international order (LIO), examining how India has historically both engaged with and asserted autonomy from the Western-led order. It argues that India’s evolving foreign policy—from Nehru’s non-alignment to Modi’s strategic autonomy—reflects a deliberate use of specific approaches to create space within the LIO for its unique national interests. The main argument of the paper is that India’s engagement with the LIO has not involved wholesale rejection of the extant LIO framework but rather the selective leveraging and reimagining of liberal principles to preserve India’s strategic interests while promoting a multipolar, more inclusive global order. India’s approach to the LIO from its independence to now has been marked by continuity. Since 1947, India has sought to uphold sovereignty while benefiting from liberal principles, particularly in institutional and economic domains. The paper draws on the theoretical framework of defensive realism and institutional neoliberalism to deconstruct and highlight India’s policy approach to the LIO, which is characterized by pragmatism and suggests that India could be described as a transactional power. https://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/6554Indialiberal international order (LIO)non-alignmentstrategic autonomydefensive realism |
| spellingShingle | Jakub Zajączkowski Manish Jung Pulami Non-Alignment to Strategic Autonomy Politeja India liberal international order (LIO) non-alignment strategic autonomy defensive realism |
| title | Non-Alignment to Strategic Autonomy |
| title_full | Non-Alignment to Strategic Autonomy |
| title_fullStr | Non-Alignment to Strategic Autonomy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Non-Alignment to Strategic Autonomy |
| title_short | Non-Alignment to Strategic Autonomy |
| title_sort | non alignment to strategic autonomy |
| topic | India liberal international order (LIO) non-alignment strategic autonomy defensive realism |
| url | https://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/6554 |
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