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130649
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132378
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2013.
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Regional security dynamics undergo significant transition with the shifting alliance formation within the geopolitical setting of South Asia. Traditional 'balance of power' argument sees a potential for stability in the emerging distribution of power, whether it is a 'unilateral hegemonic distribution' or a 'pluri-lateral bipolar or multi-polar distribution'. But a growing Indo-Afghan partnership in South Asia offers, as the paper argues, a more complicated case. Indian stronghold in Afghanistan is enhancing already asymmetric distribution of power in the region, granting a more favourable power balance for India allowing the country to pursue its objective of emerging as a major world power. The maturing of Indo-US defence ties and the US approval of Indian stronger presence in Afghanistan provide India with enlarged incentives and enthusiasm to dominate the regional security matters. On the other hand, Pakistan's critical stake in Afghan security and its likely antagonistic reaction to Indian pre-eminent position in the region might lead to prolonged instability in South Asia. Besides, China's growing presence in Afghanistan and Central Asia will also complicate India's regional leadership potential. The paper makes an attempt to assess the competing claims on the regional ramifications of India's Afghan policy in South Asia with a view to unravelling emerging security atmosphere in the region in the wake of US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan in 2014.
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109720
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114446
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2012.
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Afghanistan is India's most important neighbouring country, with
which India has shared strategic, economic and political interests for
centuries. However, India-Afghanistan relations officially began only
after India's independence, more specifically after the signing of the
Treaty of Friendship between the two countries on January 4, 1950. As
early as March 22, 1949, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of
India, emphasising the geo-political importance of India's neighbouring
countries (including Afghanistan) for India's foreign policy, remarked
during his lecture at the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA),
New Delhi, "[T]he nearby countries always have a special interest in one another and India must, inevitably, think in terms of her relations
with the countries bordering her by land and sea…I would also include
Afghanistan, although it does not touch India's borders; Tibet and
China, Nepal, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia and Ceylon [Sri Lanka]."
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then, successive Indian leaders have taken great interest in the political
developments in Afghanistan and its neighbouring countries, because a
political crisis in the region, directly or indirectly, spills over to India and
affects its strategic and security interests.
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123375
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2013.
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Despite having a bilateral tie of centuries, the relations between India and Afghanistan have undergone many ups and down. As a close neighbour, India recognized the importance of Afghanistan at the initial days of India's independence but did not really pay adequate attention to make a decisive presence in the country. With the invasion of the Soviet Union and the subsequent rise of Taliban, India's role was extremely marginalized in Afghanistan.
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