mohammadjavad ghahremani; mohammadreza hagh shenas
Volume 1, Issue 3 , March 2018, , Pages 69-87
Abstract
The positive attitude and willingness to cooperate with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization originates from India's modern foreign policy, which has been pursued since the 1990s. ...
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The positive attitude and willingness to cooperate with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization originates from India's modern foreign policy, which has been pursued since the 1990s. To summarize this foreign policy, we can call it a pragmatic foreign policy that seeks to serve the national interest rather than the ideological one. This policy is the opposite of the country's foreign policy decades ago. One of the requirements of this policy is to abandon the zero-sum policy and follow the double-sum policy. This has forced India to work with most countries, institutions and regions in the world. In this way, the interests of this country will be better served. The announcement of cooperation and efforts to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization also follow this logic. Working with its members can help diversify its energy resources. Countering terrorism, one of the concerns of India, will be better served by this multilateral mechanism. More trade with member states, and especially with Central Asian republics, is beneficial to the country. These countries can provide a good market for Indian goods. It could also provide India with a dialogue field to resolve disputes and differences of opinion with Pakistan or China.
