Indian Foreign Affairs Journal

Published in Association with Association of Indian Diplomats

Current Volume: 17 (2022 )

ISSN: 0973-3248

e-ISSN: 2229-5372

Periodicity: Quarterly

Month(s) of Publication: March, June, September & December

Subject: Political Science & International Affairs

DOI: 10.32381/IFAJ

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Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, a peer reviewed quarterly publication of the Association of Indian Diplomats, attempts to provide an intellectually stimulating forum for the examination of various aspects of India's Foreign Policy. This Examination is undertaken by the experienced decision-makers, serious scholars, and seasoned analysts.

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Managing Editor
Achal Malhotra

Ambassador (Retd.) and Member,
Executive Committee, Association of Indian Diplomats, New Delhi.


Editor
Abdul Nafey

Professor (Retd.) School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi


Copy Editor
Preeti Singh

Ex-Officio Members
T. C. A. Raghavan

Ambassador (Retd.) and President, Association of Indian Diplomats, New Delhi


Amarendra Khatua

Ambassador (Retd.) and Vice President, Association of Indian Diplomats, New Delhi


Anil Trigunayat

Ambassador (Retd.) and Secretary, Association of Indian Diplomats, New Delhi


A.K Malhotra

Ambassador (Retd.) and Treasurer, Association of Indian Diplomats, New Delhi


Nominated Members
Sachin Chaturvedi

Director General,Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi


Sanjay Chaturvedi

Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh


Neelam Deo

Former Director, 'Gateway House' Indian Council on Global Relations, Mumbai.


Darvesh Gopal

Former Professor of Political Science, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi


Arvind Gupta

Director, Vivekananda International Foundation, New Delhi


Rajat Kathuria

Director & Chief Executive, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi


G. Gopa Kumar

Vice Chancellor, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod.


Jayant Prasad

Former Director General, Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.


P. K. Singh

Former Director, United Services Institution of India, New Delhi.


Nalin Surie

Former Director General, Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi.


International Advisers
David M. Malone

Rector of the United Nations University & Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Tokyo, Japan.


Ong Keng Yong

Executive Deputy Chairman, Director, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.


 T.V. Paul

James McGill Professor of International Relations, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.


Elizabeth Sidiropoulose

National Director, South African Institute of International Affairs, Braamfontein, South Africa.


Peter N Varghese

Chancellor, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.


Volume 17 Issue 1-2 , (Jan-2022 to Jun-2022)

India and Western Indian Ocean Regionalism

By: Samir Bhattacharya

Page No : 1-14

Abstract
With the world system moving from a bipolar to a multipolar structure, and the world agenda shifting from narrow high-politics to lowpolitics, there is a need to critically examine the impact of emerging countries on regionalism and the regional systems of the Global South. Uplifted by its economic growth, India is exerting to play a more active role beyond its immediate neighbourhood by developing critical partnerships with regional and extra-regional players. As a result of India’s expanding ties with the Vanilla Island countries, India has recently been accepted as an observer in the Indian Ocean Commission. While France has traditionally dominated this region due to its shared history, China has also been increasingly asserting its position here. Against the backdrop of Chinese presence continuing to shore up as well as the mounting tension between the USA and Iran over the Mozambique Channel, the competition between these powers could spill over into the region and impact the peace, stability, and ongoing constructive cooperation efforts. This essay takes India as a case study, and attempts to determine the impact of India’s assertive policies in the region. By examining the theoretical constructs of regionalism, the paper examines the impact of India’s increasing assertiveness in the region, and its impact on WIO regionalism at a theoretical as well as empirical level.

Author :
Samir Bhattacharya
He is specializes in geopolitics with particular reference to Africa in a changing global order. He is a Doctoral scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Senior Research Associate at Vivekananda International Foundation.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.1

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India’s Strategic Partnership with the UAE: A Key Pillar of India’s Outreach in West Asia

By: Rajeev Agarwal

Page No : 15-28

Author :
Rajeev Agarwal
Colonel (Retd.) Rajeev Agarwal, is a former Director, Military Intelligence and Former Director Ministry of External Affairs. He is currently an Assistant Director at MPIDSA. He has published three books.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.2

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Scoping an India-Japan Cooperative Framework for Africa: The ‘AAGC’ and Beyond

By: Dattesh D Parulekar,

Page No : 29-46

Author :
Dattesh D Parulekar
He is an Assistant Professor at the School of International and Area Studies, Goa University.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.3

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India and Central Asia: Overcoming the Chinese and Turkish Challenge in the Region

By: Aditi Bhaduri

Page No : 47-61

Author :
Aditi Bhaduri
The founder-editor of International Affairs Review, a bilingual portal publishing in English and Russian. Besides, she has translated archival documents and literary works from Russian to English. She is a journalist and analyst, specializing on Central and West Asia.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.4

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Terrorism: India’s Quest for Global Solutions for a Global Problem

By: Anil Trigunayat

Page No : 62-74

Author :
Anil Trigunayat
He is a former diplomat, former Ambassador, Distinguished Fellow, Vivekanand International Foundation, and closely associated with several think tanks dedicated to the study of international affairs.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.5

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Attempted Revival of the Khalistan Movement Abroad: Challenges to Indian Diplomacy

By: Kriti M. Shah

Page No : 75-87

Abstract
The paper looks at the Khalistan movement, amidst the recent hunt and arrest of radical preacher Amritpal Singh. It studies how the movement has changed since the campaign for a sovereign Sikh state went global in the 1970s; and what the demand for Khalistan entails today. It studies the role the Sikh diaspora in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States has played; and how recent events, particularly, protests at Indian High Commissions in these countries reflects the ambivalence of India’s ‘allies’ towards the separatists. The paper argues that while the nature of the threat posed by Khalistani separatists is much milder today than it was decades ago, the challenge for the Indian government will be the influence of the Sikh diaspora on foreign politicians and New Delhi’s ability to discredit the movement abroad.

Author :
Kriti M. Shah
(Graduate of McGill University, Canada) a freelance political analyst and writer. As a former Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, her research focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir and also on Terrorist organizations and their links with Pakistan military-intelligence establishment. She was also a former reporter at NDTV.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.6

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India’s Role and Contribution to Building Global Resilience in Disaster Management

By: Amita Singh

Page No : 88-104

Abstract
In the two decades following the devastating Tsunami of 2004, India has emerged as a global leader not just in having a well-defined structure for mitigating disasters but also in providing humanitarian support to other countries affected by disasters. The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) (2005–2010) brought vulnerable communities in disaster zones into key focus of decision making; it also emphasized preparedness (resilience building to enable communities to bounce back faster) as an important area of state responsibility. The Sendai Framework (2015–2030) that followed Hyogo evolved further by indicating that ‘risk identification’ helps timely action. As disasters observe no political boundaries, so disaster management strives to overcome every political and ideological division to cooperate, collaborate, and hand hold affected nations. Resilience building includes a strategy to prevent other nations from succumbing to disasters its impact is never confined to the one victim nation alone but spreads to other nations in different ways.
In the previous decade, India has unswervingly sent relief material as well as shared her experience, expertise, and technology for the longterm resilience building of several countries. The Disaster Management Act 2005 has provided a statutory framework for global resilience building, and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as a new team of ‘Samaritan Diplomats’ has helped India in image building, winning trust, and forming alliances. This goes a long way in strengthening both resilient infrastructure and sustainable projects, such as the ‘Solar Alliance’, and also create sturdy platforms for Abstract In the two decades following the devastating Tsunami of 2004, India has emerged as a global leader not just in having a well-defined structure for mitigating disasters but also in providing humanitarian support to other countries affected by disasters. The Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) (2005–2010) brought vulnerable communities in disaster zones into key focus of decision making; it also emphasized preparedness (resilience building to enable communities to bounce back faster) as an important area of state responsibility. The Sendai Framework (2015–2030) that followed Hyogo evolved further by indicating that ‘risk identification’ helps timely action. As disasters observe no political boundaries, so disaster management strives to overcome every political and ideological division to cooperate, collaborate, and hand hold affected nations. Resilience building includes a strategy to prevent other nations from succumbing to disasters its impact is never confined to the one victim nation alone but spreads to other nations in different ways. In the previous decade, India has unswervingly sent relief material as well as shared her experience, expertise, and technology for the longterm resilience building of several countries. The Disaster Management Act 2005 has provided a statutory framework for global resilience building, and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as a new team of ‘Samaritan Diplomats’ has helped India in image building, winning trust, and forming alliances. This goes a long way in strengthening both resilient infrastructure and sustainable projects, such as the ‘Solar Alliance’, and also create sturdy platforms for encountering pandemics like the COVID-19. Disaster Management Diplomacy is a new buzz word as traditional military competitors have now also become competitors in humanitarian interventions — such as India and China in South Asia. While resilience building strategies help a peace building process, they also ensure continuity of supply chains in global business by linking resilience building with Sustainable Development Goals.

Author :
Amita Singh
She is former Professor of Law & Governance & Founder Chairperson of the Special Centre for Disaster Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Currently, she is Distinguished Professor at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, and President of NDRG (Asia-Pacific Disaster Research Group).
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.7

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India’s Role and Stature in the Global Health System

By: Suravi Sharma

Page No : 105-117

Author :
Suravi Sharma
She is a medical professional who has obtained the degree of MA in Creative Writing from the University of London. She regularly writes for The Sunday Guardian, The Indian Express, The Sunday Observer, and has published three books.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.8

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India’s Defence Industry: From Dependence Towards Self Reliance: International Ramifications

By: Amit Cowshish

Page No : 118-131

Author :
Amit Cowshish
He is a retired senior civil servant. He inter-alia served as Financial Advisor (Acquisition) in the Ministry of Defence.
 

DOI : https://doi.org/10.32381/IFAJ.2022.17.1-2.9

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