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India has recognised that West Asia is not a single contest, but a tangle of rivalries, bargains and anxieties. Comment.

  • UPSC 2026
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  • Recent Developments in Indian Foreign Policy

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The line comes from Syed Akbaruddin, India's former Permanent Representative to the UN, writing in May 2026 as the US–Israeli war on Iran choked the Strait of Hormuz. It holds that New Delhi no longer reads the region through one axis, the Arab–Israeli dispute of the Cold War years, but as overlapping games, so its…

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