{"id":81863,"date":"2021-02-12T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=81863"},"modified":"2021-02-12T17:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:44:04","slug":"hard-sovereignty-and-its-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hard-sovereignty-and-its-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Sovereignty and its consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=G4488R5AF.1&amp;imageview=0%20\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gs2: <\/strong>International Relations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> India\u2019s posture as hard sovereignty will be harmful to India\u2019s national interest in the long run.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some recent developments in India suggest that India has developed a new posture of engagement with the world i.e. The hard <strong>sovereignty. <\/strong>This posture suggests that any outsider cannot involve in India\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p>This posture will be harmful to the country as well as the external relations of India.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the issue?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some recent developments in India have attracted international criticisms. Such as abrogation of article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, the enforcement of <strong>Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens<\/strong> and the Delhi riots.<\/li>\n<li>The centre has repeatedly asserted that these issues are India\u2019s internal matters and outside criticisms are not welcome on these issues.<\/li>\n<li>Against this backdrop, recently the External Affairs Ministry issued an official statement. In it, the ministry expressed displeasure over the <strong>social media<\/strong> remarks by global celebrities on farmers\u2019 protests.<\/li>\n<li>Moreover, It was followed by the tweets of India&#8217;s well-known personalities Such as Sachin Tendulkar.\u00a0These tweets had a message that outsiders have no right to participate in India&#8217;s internal issues, only Indians could \u2018decide\u2019 for India.<\/li>\n<li>These statements illustrate the use of <strong>hard sovereignty<\/strong> to protect India&#8217;s domestic polity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How the use of Hard sovereignty will impact India&#8217;s national interest?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since independence, India has guarded its sovereignty against outside interference. However, it was used to achieve progressive goals and acted as a bulwark against the misuse of power by powerful nations.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the recent posture of <strong>hard sovereignty<\/strong> seeks to attack international criticism over unpleasant domestic developments. This is a case of <strong>hyper-nationalism, and<\/strong> it will harm the national interest.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>First<\/strong>, India aims to <strong>increase its status and strategic influence in the global sphere<\/strong>. However, it depends on the relation with liberal democracies.\n<ul>\n<li>On the strategic front, five of India\u2019s key partners in the <strong>Indo-Pacific<\/strong> are democracies (Japan, Australia, the U.S., the U.K., and France). All of them <strong>share common norms and beliefs<\/strong> that <strong>human rights are universal.\u00a0<\/strong>These countries are the source of the majority of the criticisms received by India in the past 2 years.<\/li>\n<li>If India resorts to <strong>hard sovereignty<\/strong> over domestic issues, it will face frictions in its diplomatic relations. This will restrict India\u2019s chance for increasing its status and strategic influence in the global sphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second<\/strong>,<strong> hard sovereignty <\/strong>will strengthen the <strong>narrow-mindedness<\/strong> in India and affect the morale of <strong>non-violent social movements<\/strong>. These movements are necessary for keeping democracies in a good health.\n<ul>\n<li>Social movements do not follow the orders and trends of sovereign states. Hence, they source their support through <strong>transnational solidarities<\/strong> to bring important policy corrections within and across states. For example, Black Lives Matter movement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finally, <\/strong>it will <strong>provide a ground to our neighbouring countries<\/strong> for criticizing India\u2019s policy, on the grounds of inconsistency with its stand in international forums. For example, the CAA, 2019 was criticized by India&#8217;s Muslim-majority neighbours for its non-secular treatment towards its minorities.\n<ul>\n<li>It will reduce India\u2019s choices of seeking international support for human rights violation in the neighbourhood. For example, Human rights violation in Balochistan, Rohingya issue etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We need to guard ourselves against interventions coming from <strong>vested interests. However,<\/strong> we also need to distinguish good criticism from the bad. To retain India\u2019s position as the <strong>soft power capital <\/strong>we need to allow and listen to critics that are important to sustain India\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu Gs2: International Relations Synopsis: India\u2019s posture as hard sovereignty will be harmful to India\u2019s national interest in the long run. Background Some recent developments in India suggest that India has developed a new posture of engagement with the world i.e. The hard sovereignty. This posture suggests that any outsider cannot involve in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hard-sovereignty-and-its-consequences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hard Sovereignty and its consequences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10316,"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":[1474,1333],"class_list":["post-81863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-foreign_policy_india","tag-ir_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700792233},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81863","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\/10316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}