India's Foreign Policy

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INTERNAL DYNAMICS IN SOUTH ASIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIA’s FOREIGN POLICY^∗

Nalini Kant Jha

In the contemporary interdependent and globalizing world, domestic upheaval in one country usually produces side-effects that impacts not only its own security and foreign policy, but also those of other countries, especially those which have close geographic, social and historical ties with it. Domestic sources of foreign policy and threat to national security have gained significance in the post-Cold War era.¹ While the end of superpower rivalries, which had complicated regional conflicts in the Third World, contributed to a diminution of these conflicts, the ‘decompression’ effect of the end of the Cold War gave a fillip to linguistic, ...