Gulshan Sachdeva

Jawaharlal Nehru University | JNU · Centre of European Studies

Pakistan is China’s key ally in South Asia. This creates a strategic challenge for India and gives China the ability to move military assets (ships, planes, etc.) to India’s west. That, combined with close Chinese ties to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, means that China can put pressure on India during crisis situations. China is also increasing its ties...

Bhaswati Mukherjee, India and EU: An Insider’s View. New Delhi: ICWA and Vij Books, 2018, pp. +336, ₹995.

This article examines the role of strategic partnerships in Indian foreign policy and the nature and perceptions of India and the European Union about the strategic partnership. It discusses how both sides look at global governance, normative divergence, and security cooperation. It assesses Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s perceptions and engagement...

Against a backdrop of a strong global discourse on mitigating climate change and adopting a cohesive environmental policy, the debate on nuclear power is becoming increasingly important. As part of the fall-out of the oil crisis in the 1970s, nuclear energy emerged as a major game-changer in Europe, critically highlighting the need to achieve energ...

Vijayta Mahendru, Gulshan Sachdeva and Neha provide a comprehensive analysis of three inter-related aspects of the migrant and refugee issues in Europe. First, the chapter discusses the evolution of current crisis, the EU policies to deal with it and shortfalls in implementation. Second, the chapter deals with the possible economic impact of migran...

Gulshan Sachdeva shows that, historically, Europe has been important for India, both for trade and investment. Even today, the core of the India–EU strategic partnership is still economics. The EU is India’s biggest trade and investment partner. Europe has emerged as an important destination for cross-border investments and overseas acquisitions fo...

The book analyzes some of the key issues confronted by European policy makers. These issues include effective multilateralism; common foreign and security policy; multiculturalism; climate change; security challenges; rise of populism; Brexit; the Ukrainian crisis; relations with Russia; standoff in Catalonia; as well as migration and the refugee c...

This article has captured evolving Indian narratives concerning One Belt One Road (OBOR) or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In the context of changing scope of the BRI, perceptions are also evolving. The article has covered wider perceptions, which go much beyond limited official narrative. Broader India–China ties have affected BRI discussions...

India has come a long way in making itself a key player in Southeast Asian security and economic equilibrium through the Look East Policy that launched in the early 1990s. For most Southeast Asian countries India is a potential counterweight to China and an economic option. Besides establishing strong institutional linkages with ASEAN and ASEAN-led...

At this stage of modernization, India is vulnerable due to insufficient energy resources. Accelerated growth has also forced India to synchronize its energy security issues within its foreign and security policy. India is seriously perusing nuclear energy option as well as import sources beyond the Middle-East. Bilateral nuclear agreements (with US...

The EU-India Strategic Partnership has lost momentum. Bilateral ties are not receiving sufficient priority from both sides. Economics remains at the core of this relationship. Since negotiations on the Broad-based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) may take time to be concluded, EU-India ties should not be held hostage to developments at BTIA le...

Afghanistan has witnessed diverse projects of nation building and sociopolitical transformation in the recent decades. The Soviet project of building communism in Afghanistan resulted in over 1 million dead and 5 million Afghan refugees, mainly in the neighborhood. Similarly, when Pakistan pushed the conservative Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the...

India and Europe share the vision of a democratic, multi-cultural and multi-polar world. In the recent past, trade and other economic ties have formed the core of India–EU partnership. Encouraged by positive trends, both have forged a strategic partnership and are negotiating for a broad-based bilateral trade and investment agreement. Despite many...

European economic presence in South Asia

The strategic location, energy resources, competition for pipeline routes and the sheer number of regional and global players, were sufficient reasons for many analysts to create theories of the "New Great Game" in Central Asia. The race for military bases and the regime change experiments through "color revolutions" have added a new dimension to t...

The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is very heterogeneous with more than forty countries of differing sizes, population, political systems, and with uneven growth rates and development. Countries namely, Australia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and South Africa, are seen...

The analysis explains how the complex transformation process, from a command economy to a market economy, has been understood by different multilateral institutions as well as by policy makers in these transitional economies. As far as the Central Asian economies are concerned, they are not only dealing with usual transformational dilemmas but also...

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India is making a successful transition from an excessively inward-oriented economy to a more globally integrated one. As a result of new policies in the early 1990s, it has become one of the fastest growing economies of the world. Despite some serious challenges such as energy security, poverty, infrastruc-ture, regional disparities and internal s...