{"id":241175,"date":"2023-05-06T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=241175"},"modified":"2023-05-06T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:38:23","slug":"perils-of-new-multilateralism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/perils-of-new-multilateralism\/","title":{"rendered":"Perils of new multilateralism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cPerils of new multilateralism\u201d <\/b>published in\u00a0The Hindu <\/b>on\u00a06th May 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About India’s participation in multilateral institutions.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers\u2019 meeting was held recently in Goa. This SCO meeting serves to underline India\u2019s current geopolitical dilemma.<\/p>\n

What are the issues with India’s participation in multilateral institutions?<\/h2>\n

Issues with India’s participation in Western institutions<\/strong>: Not only western institutions but also the western governments\u2019 are criticising India’s record on human rights, civil liberties and minorities.<\/p>\n

The only places India can seek refuge are the organisations China founded or dominates.<\/p>\n

Issues with India’s participation in China-dominated institutions<\/strong>: China, Russia, and India are common to SCO, BRICS and RIC (Russia-India-China) groups. All these three multilateral organisations have come up in the two decades when both India and China have grown phenomenally.<\/p>\n

The common factor in all three forums is the pre-eminence of China and Russia as its loyal follower. This highlights the quality of multilateralism and multilateral institutions India is part of.<\/p>\n

This is because, a)<\/strong> India is forced to spend so much time and energy, and invest so much political capital, in a grouping where it has so many serious clashes of interest, b)<\/strong> On border debates, India would be seen as rude to Pakistan as China itself have border disputes with India, c)<\/strong> These bodies, the SCO in particular, given its military-strategic priorities, do not help India\u2019s quest for strategic autonomy. Instead, they only limit that.<\/p>\n

Other regional institutions<\/strong>: Over the decades, India has failed even to build a regional forum of its own to create a sense of geopolitically limited multilateralism. For instance, the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has been rendered mostly defunct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: G20 meet shows a deepening crisis in multilateralism<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What should be done to revive India’s participation in multilateral institutions?<\/h2>\n

SAARC should be expanded to include other major nations in the region. Such as, Afghanistan, Thailand, the Central Asian republics, Iran, and Russia.<\/p>\n

As an instinctive reaction to Western institutions and governments\u2019 and Chinese dominant institutions, India should focus on non-alignment to attain strategic autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: India\u2019s Approach to Multilateralism \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cPerils of new multilateralism\u201d published in\u00a0The Hindu on\u00a06th May 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate. Relevance: About India’s participation in multilateral institutions. News: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers\u2019 meeting was held recently in Goa. This SCO meeting serves… Continue reading Perils of new multilateralism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"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":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-241175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700785784,"cached_date":1704696600},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241175","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}