The world Delhi wants
Official Indian conceptions of international order, c. 1998-2023
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4036041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Atul Mishra (0000-0002-1746-646X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1401-1419 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiad126 |
| OpenAlex | W4382983509 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Examining India's official thinking on international order over the past quarter-century, this article maps the shift in the country's preference from liberal internationalism to the rules-based international order (RIO). It argues that despite Delhi's current narrative of a 'New India', the country's order conception shows continuity in being essentially reformist and mostly consistent with the pillars of the 1945 order. While its marked unease with liberalism is a consequence of the changes afoot in India's domestic politics, this development is consistent with, and contributes to, the decline of liberalism as a global force. The current Indian preference for economic protectionism also reflects the larger trend of economic deglobalization. The description of India as a resurgent civilizational state rather than a liberal democracy, while discursively arresting, does not indicate a divergence with the West on the grand strategic question of order-building. Upon reconstructing the Indian iteration of the RIO, the article finds it to be geographical-focused on Asia and the Indo-Pacific-rather than universal. Finally, it posits that India's persisting problem of inadequate power and its risk-averse responses to great power revisionism are likely to undermine its efforts to effectively partner with democracies to shape the emergent RIO
Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Economy · International relations · Liberalism · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |