INDIA-EU IN 2024: A STRATEGIC NECESSITY FOR GLOBAL EQUILIBRIUM

The immediate premise for closer ties is the spate of recurring crises we see today.

- MANISH BARMA 

INTRODUCTION

Today, it is becoming an almost cliched observation when one talks of the inevitability of India’s imminent arrival at the centre of global notability. However, there are a few powers that do not act quite commensurately with regards to India, at least until now. And one of them happens to be the European Union (EU). India sits astride very pivotal locations on the world map. From being strategically located in South Asia to being in the immediate vicinity of the Indo-Pacific region, India’s geographical location today is in near alignment with her geopolitical, economic and growing military clout, therefore making her an indispensable and inescapable power, for either those wishing to induce an element of equilibrium in the increasingly turbulent current global order, or those wishing to further aggravate ongoing issues, conflicts, either overtly or via more subtle means of diplomacy.

And as a “normative” actor that ostensibly seeks to establish and sustain a norms and rules-based world order, it is about time that the EU starts sincerely realizing the inevitability of India and find common ground with it. And recent developments do paint a practicable and doable scenario.

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