BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

CHALLENGES OF INDIA'S GLOBAL EMERGENCE

Author: Abu Salah Md. Yousuf, Mohammad Jasim Uddin

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2014v35n3a2

ABSTRACT

India is emerging as a global economic power and expanding its military capabilities. Its maritime posture in the Indo-Pacific has made it an important stakeholder in the Asia-Pacific strategic ambiguity. The country is invited in almost all global forums and encouraged to play active role in the international affairs. These are some of the key indicators of India’s global emergence. By contrast, India is yet to take strong footholds in several global issues, while negotiating with international powers e.g. the USA and China. Some major challenges of the global emergence of India are its foreign policy predicaments, neighbourhood compulsions and China bogey, compulsions of energy import, limits of its soft power capabilities, internal security threats and domestic underdevelopment. In this context, the two important research questions of this paper are: which factors indicate India as an emerging global power? And, what are the challenges for India’s global emergence? The paper concludes that due to emerging economic and military power, India’s role in the international arena are increasing, but the country faces both internal and external challenges to project itself as a global power.