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147992
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In the context of India’s Strategic Environment, often consideration of the intellectuals is that, “it is in the vicinity of the Indian Ocean concavity absolutely”. In this regard the explanations about India’s strategic proximity stretches to the Strait of Hormoz and the Persian Gulf in the west; according to some claims the eastern coast of Africa as the western-most border of this strategic arena. In the space capacity to the east, India’s neighbouring strategic zone includes the Strait of Malacca and extends up to the South China Sea. In the vertical block sector, the north is constituted of Central Asia, and to the south, it reaches out to Antarctica.
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145409
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This paper examines India’s strategic environment in the round. ‘Strategic’ refers here to politico-military aspects of international relations, particularly those with implications for the use or potential use of force in the future. Thus economic factors are considered secondarily, and only insofar as they have diplomatic and military ramifications – as in the case of Chinese infrastructure projects in South Asia, or Indian port-development in Iran. This approach also sets aside what we might call ‘structural’ factors, such as large-scale multilateral trade deals, such as the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and sociological-demographic trends, such as relative population growth rates, also such issues necessarily influence the real and perceived balance of power over the long-run. The paper begins by considering India’s most salient adversary, Pakistan, before looking at the connected issue of Afghanistan and Central Asia. It then turns east to examine another rival, China, followed by the United States, the smaller states of South Asia, and finally the Middle East.
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