{"id":145668,"date":"2021-11-09T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=145668"},"modified":"2021-11-27T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T07:02:59","slug":"india-needs-a-new-integrated-approach-to-eurasia-1200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-needs-a-new-integrated-approach-to-eurasia-1200\/","title":{"rendered":"India needs a new integrated approach to Eurasia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News<\/strong>: India\u2019s Indo-Pacific strategy has got a concrete political and institutional shape with the setting up of QUAD. India must develop a similar strategy for Eurasia as well. The Eurasian Strategy will completement the Indo-Pacific Strategy as the latter influences maritime geopolitics while the former will be in the Continental domain.<\/p>\n

What is the concept of Eurasia?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The concept of Eurasia poses challenges similar to the Indo-Pacific. While the region can be defined unambiguously by the Physical Geographers, the political definition of Eurasia remain fluid. Russia defines Eurasia in terms of territory and neighbourhood of the former Soviet Union. Some others define it in terms of \u201cCentral Asia\u201d, \u201cInner Asia\u201d and \u201cGreater Middle East\u201d by including West Asia as well. India must consider Eurasia in broadest term to shape its Eurasian strategy.<\/p>\n

How is the geopolitics changing in the regions? <\/strong><\/p>\n

China\u2019s dramatic rise<\/strong>: China asserts deep influence in the region due to its long borders. China has grown more aggressive in recent times as the region is central to its BRI project which extends till Atlantic Coast of Europe. Moreover Russia\u2019s differences with the West has brought China and Russia closer.<\/p>\n

US Realignment<\/strong>: While the US has increased focus on the Indo-Pacific, there is realignment of America\u2019s strategic view regarding the Atlantic and Eurasia. US has already withdrawn from Afghanistan. The US and NATO are debating the rebalancing of Europe\u2019s collective defense where the US had played a central role since WWII. The US is calling this rebalance as \u201cBurden Sharing\u201d while EU might call it \u201cStrategic Autonomy\u201d. But in essence, the US might reduce its role in Europe\u2019s strategic defense and Europe might take a more central role and would require a rethink regarding Europe\u2019s conception of Eurasia.<\/p>\n

What has been India\u2019s relationship with Eurasia?<\/strong><\/p>\n

India\u2019s connection with Eurasia dates to ancient civilization links since the Buddhist era. Foreign forces continued to come to India through the western border while the British got entangled with the Russians in the Great Game in 18th<\/sup> and 19th<\/sup> centuries. The partition of India and a hostile neighbour in the West cut off India from Central Asia and Eurasia. Overcoming this barrier would be central to India\u2019s Eurasian Strategy.<\/p>\n

What should be India\u2019s Strategy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There should be 3 core elements to India\u2019s Eurasian Strategy<\/p>\n

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  1. Centrality of Europe: Many Indian nationalists had made Europe their base during the freedom struggle. Post independence, India\u2019s relationship with the USSR had led to distancing from Europe. India must have strategic engagement with Europe (both EU and NATO) on Eurasian Security and should set up a military office in Brussels as the first step.<\/li>\n
  2. Engagement with Russia on Eurasian security: There are differences between India and Russia regarding QUAD, China and Taliban; but there are significant common grounds between the two regarding Eurasian security<\/li>\n
  3. Collaboration with Iran and Arab world: While Iran is central to connectivity; the Arabs are critical due to their religious influence. Both might help in countering the hostile Turkey-Pakistan alliance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    India shouldn\u2019t let the internal contradictions between all the regional and extra-regional stakeholders. Eurasia presents both a challenge and opportunity to India\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n

    Source:<\/strong> This post is created based on the article “India needs a new, integrated approach to Eurasia” published in Indian Express on 9th November 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    News: India\u2019s Indo-Pacific strategy has got a concrete political and institutional shape with the setting up of QUAD. India must develop a similar strategy for Eurasia as well. The Eurasian Strategy will completement the Indo-Pacific Strategy as the latter influences maritime geopolitics while the former will be in the Continental domain. What is the concept… Continue reading India needs a new integrated approach to Eurasia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-145668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704943039},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}