The Roadmap of India’s Foreign Relations and U.S.A Geo-Politics Interests in the New World Order

Abstract

Over the past two decades, India-USA relations have expanded in almost every conceivable dimension, though not as companions but as bilateral relations on parallel journeys. How should India’s emerging role in the international system and India’s growing contribution to the strength and stability of the global order be viewed? What are the issues and challenges that stand against India’s growing international role and what opportunities should it take advantage of as India continues to transform itself into an important global role? The strategic state of relations between India and the USA provides a useful look at these questions. Despite India’s undeniable regional and global importance to American interests, for several decades the USA was unwilling to consider key areas to further deepen bilateral and regional cooperation. The main reason for this was that India had nuclear weapons but in the early years after the year 2000, the USA began to see an active and constructive partnership with India as necessary to move forward on many issues. For example, America’s global war on terror was joined by India’s fight against its threat of organized terrorism. It gave both countries a practical platform for greater cooperation in intelligence, law enforcement and military relations. Cyber security cooperation between the two countries has steadily increased in recent years. Furthermore, the US has realized that it is necessary to increase cooperation with India to counter the growing China as China is already exercising significant economic and political influence at the regional level and beyond. India, on its part, recognized long ago that China’s main strategic goal was to replace the USA as the most important security force in Asia and above all to destroy the current international global order set by the USA to challenge. Along with this, India also knows that America’s strong regional and global position is important to bring under control of China’s strategic ambition. As in the October 2019 edition of Foreign Affairs Magazine, Robert D. Blackville and Ashley J. Tellis wrote: “As far as China is concerned, American and Indian national interests are parallel to each other. The USA sought to maintain stability in Asia through an arrangement based not on Chinese domination but on the security and autonomy of all countries in the region. India, because of its fear of Chinese supremacy, supported America’s approach to China.’