Article
European Perspectives on Indo-EU Relations amidst Global Discord, Power Shift

By : Prem Mahadevan

Page No: 194-208

Abstract
The India-EU relationship has been gathering momentum lately, with high-profile visits to Delhi. These positive developments need to be seen against a backdrop where both sides need each other owing to unpredictability in their own respective relations with the United States. In order that India might be understood on its own terms by EU interlocutors, there is a need to move away from Anglo-American narrative frameworks which still influence how India is perceived internationally. India needs to strengthen its intellectual and policy engagement with continental European countries while remaining aware that political moods can shift swiftly against it, as happened in the past with China, whose rise was once welcomed by the West but later viewed with suspicion. To keep EU businesses invested in its prosperity, India needs to be seen as a place where foreign investment is profitable.

Author
Dr. Prem Mahadevan is a Visiting Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF). He has previously worked as a Senior Researcher with the Centre for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, as a Senior Analyst with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime in Geneva, and as a Senior Lecturer with the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague.
 

DOI: http://doi.org/10.32381/NS.2026.09.02.3