{"id":188989,"date":"2022-06-06T20:28:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=188989"},"modified":"2022-06-06T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:59:45","slug":"7-growth-is-indias-best-foreign-policy-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-growth-is-indias-best-foreign-policy-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"7% Growth Is India\u2019s Best Foreign Policy Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> Countries from around the world like the US, Israel, Iran, etc. are trying to build good relations with India. However, India is still not free to make strategic choices.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>How economic development determines freedom\u00a0to make choices for countries?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>In 2010, Professor Michael Beckley analyzed the relationship between military effectiveness and economic development. In the study, he analyzed hundreds of battles over a nearly 100-year period (between 1898 and 1987).<\/p>\n<p>His study found that military effectiveness is primarily a function of economic development. Other political and social factors are marginal in effect.<\/p>\n<p>The reason is simple, economically developed states have a greater surplus of wealth. Thus, they could sustain larger investments in technology, production techniques, and military development without draining the economy of resources.<\/p>\n<p>For example; China has used its spectacular economic growth to fund the fastest military expansion seen since World War II. In 2011.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>How India has fared in this domain?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>After the 1991 reforms, India\u2019s <strong>economy was in a high growth orbit till 2008<\/strong>. During this period, India entered into the <strong>landmark nuclear deal<\/strong> with the US <strong>without any objection from China<\/strong> in the Nuclear Suppliers Group. China was 2 times the size of the Indian economy then.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>now China has become 5 times of Indian economy, and<\/strong>\u00a0it is not willing to make the same adjustment for India in NSG (for membership).<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, India\u2019s ability to purchase cheap Russian oil while maintaining great relations with major European powers is<strong> based on the possibility of India becoming a bigger economy<\/strong>. An economically anaemic India won\u2019t provide the same attractions, and choices will become harder.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, India\u2019s ability to push back the\u00a0most proximate national security threat, from China, is <strong>weakened due to low spending on defence<\/strong>. The problem is not the percentage of GDP spent on defense, but the total GDP itself. If GDP is small, the percentage won\u2019t make much difference.<\/p>\n<p>A growth rate of 7% will give all the flexibility the country needs on funding the military, getting seats in crucial global alliances, and enforcing the principle of Indian Exceptionalism in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>This Post is created based on the article <strong>\u201c7% Growth Is India<\/strong><strong>\u2019s Best Foreign Policy Strategy\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>The Times of India<\/strong> on <strong>6<sup>th<\/sup> June 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Countries from around the world like the US, Israel, Iran, etc. are trying to build good relations with India. However, India is still not free to make strategic choices. How economic development determines freedom\u00a0to make choices for countries? In 2010, Professor Michael Beckley analyzed the relationship between military effectiveness and economic development. In the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-growth-is-indias-best-foreign-policy-strategy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7% Growth Is India\u2019s Best Foreign Policy Strategy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"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":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-188989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704716151},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188989","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\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}