India's Quest for Status and Neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine War

BRICS, a Case Study

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ID9940993
AuthorsRaj Verma (0000-0001-9869-8782, Shanghai International Studies University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume79
Issue1
Pages61-78
Publication date2024-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Canada s Journal of Global Policy Analysis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7020 • E-ISSN: 2052-465X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00207020231221831
OpenAlexW4390030671
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Employing BRICS as a case study, this paper argues that India's neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war is not influenced by its quest for status via BRICS because a souring of the India-Russia bilateral relationship will not affect India's quest for status through the BRICS. First, India and Russia have joined and co-developed BRICS to achieve their national and foreign policy goals such as great power status, challenging US hegemony and achieving a multipolar world order, reform of the liberal international order and Bretton Woods institutions and other objectives. Both countries have much to lose by allowing their problematic bilateral relationship to adversely impact the BRICS. Second, the BRICS is structured in such a way that its operating procedures/principles including consensus-based decision making and intentionally omitting controversial issues implies that bilateral problems between member states are not tabled and they do not make the group dysfunctional

China · Development economics · Dysfunctional family · Economics · Foreign policy · Great power · Hegemony · Neutrality · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Indian Economic and Social Development · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology

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