THE IRONY OF SAMENESS EUROPEAN UNION AND INDIA’S COLD RELATIONSHIP
Trying to establish themselves as global actors, both European Union and India pursue their interest through multiliteralism. Although both of them developed intense relationships with the United States, Russian Federation, China and other regional actors, EU and India do not find profoundly attract...
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| description | Trying to establish themselves as global actors, both European Union and India pursue their interest through multiliteralism. Although both of them developed intense relationships with the United States, Russian Federation, China and other regional actors, EU and India do not find profoundly attracted to one another. While EU steers Central Asia or China, India in its part sees the European framework as the sum of its parts at best and prefers bilateral proximity with individual nations once at the time: UK, France Italy, Germany or Poland. The irony of this state of affairs is that both EU and India have similar traits if judged by their effort to bridge ethnic, religious and economic diversity into a single body. Apart from that both EU and Indian economies struggle to shape a compromise between social protection and the neoliberal agenda. In this paper we analyze the relationship between European Union and India by focusing on their foreign policies. Our main hypothesis is that EU and India should cooperate due to their attraction to the same values and norms. As future unfolds along with common challenges such as regulating financial flows or tackling terrorism and environmental issues, European Union and India should try to reach a common language. This relation can also be a test for EU’s aim to become a global actor because an established cooperation with an Asian country would provide the necessary framework to work outside the European space and to demonstrated its commitment to become an important player in IR. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b5dcbf2cbf7c4c5d8ad4dd7a470855522025-01-02T12:51:29ZengNicolae Titulescu University Publishing HouseChallenges of the Knowledge Society2068-77962068-77962013-05-013-11731191THE IRONY OF SAMENESS EUROPEAN UNION AND INDIA’S COLD RELATIONSHIPMIHAELA PĂDUREANU0SILVIU PETRE1Beneficiary of the „Doctoral Scholarships for a Sustainable Society” project , project co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund, Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources and Development 2007-2013.Beneficiary of the „Doctoral Scholarships for a Sustainable Society” project , project co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund, Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources and Development 2007-2013;( silviugeopolitic@yahoo.com).Trying to establish themselves as global actors, both European Union and India pursue their interest through multiliteralism. Although both of them developed intense relationships with the United States, Russian Federation, China and other regional actors, EU and India do not find profoundly attracted to one another. While EU steers Central Asia or China, India in its part sees the European framework as the sum of its parts at best and prefers bilateral proximity with individual nations once at the time: UK, France Italy, Germany or Poland. The irony of this state of affairs is that both EU and India have similar traits if judged by their effort to bridge ethnic, religious and economic diversity into a single body. Apart from that both EU and Indian economies struggle to shape a compromise between social protection and the neoliberal agenda. In this paper we analyze the relationship between European Union and India by focusing on their foreign policies. Our main hypothesis is that EU and India should cooperate due to their attraction to the same values and norms. As future unfolds along with common challenges such as regulating financial flows or tackling terrorism and environmental issues, European Union and India should try to reach a common language. This relation can also be a test for EU’s aim to become a global actor because an established cooperation with an Asian country would provide the necessary framework to work outside the European space and to demonstrated its commitment to become an important player in IR.http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2013_articles/index.php?dir=3_Administrative_and_Political_Sciences%2F&download=cks_2013_administration_008.pdfdemocracyvaluessecurityliberalismEUIndiaEuropean militaryindustrial complexDassault-Rafale |
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| title | THE IRONY OF SAMENESS EUROPEAN UNION AND INDIA’S COLD RELATIONSHIP |
| title_full | THE IRONY OF SAMENESS EUROPEAN UNION AND INDIA’S COLD RELATIONSHIP |
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| title_full_unstemmed | THE IRONY OF SAMENESS EUROPEAN UNION AND INDIA’S COLD RELATIONSHIP |
| title_short | THE IRONY OF SAMENESS EUROPEAN UNION AND INDIA’S COLD RELATIONSHIP |
| title_sort | irony of sameness european union and india s cold relationship |
| topic | democracy values security liberalism EU India European military industrial complex Dassault-Rafale |
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