The Continuing Cold War in the North & India’s Foreign Policy Confusions
Not just in the present-BJP government, but even their predecessors from the UPA demonstrated a noticeable lack of clarity in their Foreign Policy especially with regards to the major Blocs of Power in the world, the Western (NATO) and the Eastern (Russia, primarily). Even before writing about the reasons for our confusion, I would like to observe a simple fact that even after the Cold War was “finished” by the liberalisation of the Communist economies, animosity and power struggle between the two Blocs has remained alive. This has become even more pronounced since Russia’s influence again rises in its neighbourhood and beyond, with most recent examples of its more dominating posture demonstrated by the recent conflagration in Crimea and the ongoing struggle in Syria. It's not hard to discern why Indian Foreign Policy strategists are appearing confused in this status-quo, because even after the Cold War was supposedly finished, and of course, we too bent the knee by adopting