2 responses to “Emerging Indonesia and its global posture”

1. Good article. Could the author pl elaborate on why India pursues aggressive and coherent foreign policy. As someone from New Delhi, I rather feel that India’s foreign policy is very cautious. Thank you.

   • Thanks a lot for your comment. I believe there are at least two factors that influence current Indian foreign policy. First, its acute rivalry with Pakistan in many issues encourages India to always maintain a kind of ‘diplomatic’ superiority over Pakistan. Second, India has powerful modalities to play more pivotal role on the global stage. It has nuclear capability, economic potency and huge population. But, at the same time India is facing difficult domestic challenges (poverty, separatist issues, Hindu-Muslim relations) as well as sensitive international circumstances (e.g. India’s military assertiveness will only make China closer to Pakistan, something that India doesn’t want to see). Thus, although India has enormous economic, political and military capabilities, India is always cautious in exercising its foreign policy.