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How does India-Israel bilateral ties reflect the autonomy of India’s foreign policy choices?

  • UPSC 2022
  • 20 marks
  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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Strategic autonomy is not equidistance; it is the capacity to choose partners, timing and positions by one's own interests without an external veto. Jawaharlal Nehru pursued it through non-alignment; the 2012 report NonAlignment 2.0 argued that it now rests on capability and options; S. Jaishankar recast it in 2019 as "convergences and issue-based arrangements". The…

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  • Autonomy in timing: recognition, silence, normalisation
  • Autonomy in choosing partners by capability
  • Autonomy as de-hyphenation
  • The limits of the autonomy claim
  • Conclusion
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