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What are the motivations for India’s ‘Look East’ policy?

  • UPSC 2007
  • 20 marks
  • India and South Asia

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The Look East Policy was not a doctrine written in advance. It was the improvised response of the P. V. Narasimha Rao government in 1991–92 to a state that had run out of foreign exchange, lost its superpower partner and found its own neighbourhood offering nothing it could use. Its motivations are best sorted by…

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  • Systemic motivations
  • Economic motivations
  • Regional motivations
  • Domestic and identity motivations
  • Weighing the motivations
  • Conclusion
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