Situating the quad in India’s multi-alignment policy Jain Vaishali1,*, Gill Somvir2 1Vaishali Jain, Assistant Professor, International Relations, Department of Political Science, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India 2Somvir Gill, PhD Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India *Corresponding author email id: vaishali.polsc@kuk.ac.in
Online Published on 6 January, 2022. Abstract The post-pandemic era has brought forth profound changes in the world that are reshaping the global order. The rise of the “Indo-Pacific Region” (IPR) as the hub of world geopolitics is an example of such a transformation. In order to adapt to these developments and benefit from them, India has to restructure its foreign policy. India has renounced its Cold War-era “non-alignment” strategy and moved on with the “multi-lignment” policy. India seeks issue-based partnerships with like-minded countries under this strategy. In the IPR, such a collaboration is the formation of the “Quadrilateral Security Dialogue” (Quad) with the United States (US), Japan, and Australia. This paper explores the place of the Quad in the multi-alignment policy of India. In the second part, this paper explains the chronic rise of the Quad in the strategic calculations of the IPR. This paper’s third section analyses the Quad’s relevance for India. The concluding section will explain how the Quad fits into India’s multi-alignment policy and also provides prospects and some suggestions for the future of the Quad in India’s multi-alignment policy. Top Keywords Quad, Multi-alignment, Indo-Pacific, India, China. Top |