On the issue of India's foreign policy

Аннотация

        India is one of the largest economies in the world and a rapidly developing country. India’s participation in BRICS opens up new opportunities for economic cooperation with countries around the world. As a country located in a strategically important region of Asia, India plays a key role in maintaining geopolitical balance in BRICS. India’s participation ensures that the interests and views of diverse countries are taken into account when making important decisions. India serves not only as an important economic partner but also as a geopolitical ally capable of maintaining stability and promoting mutual security. For Russia, India’s participation in BRICS is of particular importance, as it helps strengthen strategic partnership, develop economic cooperation and maintain geopolitical balance. It will be significant for the future of BRICS that India has been a member of BRICS since its inception in 2009. It is the third-largest economy by GDP and the largest population in the world. India is active at BRICS summits: it actively supports the New Development Bank and the BRICS Reserve Fund, financial institutions that are important alternative financial instruments for the countries of the organization. India is also a member of the BRICS Trade and Investment Facilitation Mechanism. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that modern international relations are undergoing a systemic restructuring, which is characterized by the increasing importance of the relationship between regional and global processes. Modern India is a rapidly developing state with an ambitious foreign policy both at the global and regional levels. The state seeks to go beyond the regional state by pursuing global initiatives, actively involving both its economic and military potential and the instruments of "soft power". The collapse of the bipolar system of international relations in the 1990s led to an increase in the number of players in the Bay of Bengal, which is acquiring special significance as a new node of interweaving strategies and clashes of interests of large states - India, China, the United States and Russia in the context of the emergence of non-traditional centers of power, the construction of a new architecture of international relations and the diversification of global challenges of multipolarity. New bloc structures are being built that form the modern architectonics of relations in the subregion, in which India seeks to play a leading role. In the context of the formation of the modern architecture of international relations, the self-perception of the developing states of the subregion, their national development concepts, and foreign policy strategies are changing. In conditions when sea power is becoming the most important factor of influence in international relations, the role of the states of the subregion is increasing dramatically. India is the leading state of the subregion and a maritime power, and if it manages to take responsibility for the integration processes in the Bay of Bengal, its international status on the world stage will increase significantly. The importance of the Bay of Bengal as a part of the Indian Ocean in India's maritime strategy is a historically conditioned factor, built on the basis of India's historical experience as a country of international transit. This experience has again been in demand since the country's independence. India's superiority in the region in ancient times is the motivation for its assertion in modern international relations as a maritime power. 4. India's foreign policy is distinguished by its independence in relation to the foreign policies of the great powers in the subregion. Refusing the role of a secondary player in the Indian Ocean region as a whole, India seeks to diversify foreign policy contacts against the background of the Chinese-American factor in the subregion, in particular, with Russia. The factor of historical memory and common cultures, religions and languages ​​plays a significant role in the integration processes in the Bay of Bengal. Thanks to the development of the role of the Indian diaspora in the sub-region. India's modern foreign policy is based on the ancient postulates of Kautilya's diplomacy (IV century BC) and is aimed at both restoring and increasing its influence in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean region as a whole, and pursuing a response policy to counter Chinese penetration into the sub-region through mechanisms of interaction with regional countries in the field of economics, politics and cultural and humanitarian cooperation.