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A grand external strategy would require that interactions between different strategic objectives be examined to arrive at the right balance. There is clearly a possibility of a trade off between some interactive objectives, and even between components of an objective. Despite the heightened expectation of the global community, the implications of India’s enhanced role in global issues and governance needs to be looked at within the parameters of its growth and security objectives. In case of contradictions, the former should be given lower priority in the conduct of the country’s foreign policy. This does not, in any sense, imply an abdication of global responsibilities, but rather that India cannot afford to let them pose a trade-off on the more important aspects of its national security. Today standing on the crossroads of global highways of the international politics and relations, it is India’s moment of millennial opportunity. The challenge is to convert the national hope into reality. To make a great leap in congruence to our collective Vision of 2020, an intellectual foreign policy is the only panacea for all evils.
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