NonAlignment 2.0 is an attempt to identify the basic principles that should guide India’s foreign and strategic policy over the next decade. The views it sets out are rooted in the conviction that the success of India’s own internal development will depend decisively on how effectively we manage our global opportunities in order to maximize our choices—thereby enlarging our domestic options to the benefit of all Indians.
The purposes of the present strategy document are three-fold: to lay out the opportunitiesthat India enjoys in the international sphere; to identify the challenges and threats it is likely to confront; and to define the broad perspective and approach that India should adopt as it works to enhance its strategic autonomy in global circumstances that, for some time to come, are likely to remain volatile and uncertain.
NonAlignment 2.0 is the product of collective deliberation, debate and report writing involvinga diverse and independent group of analysts and policy makers, namely: Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Prakash Menon, Nandan Nilekani, Srinath Raghavan, Shyam Saran, Siddharth Varadarajan. The group was convened in November 2010 and met at regular intervals for over a year, until January 2012. Also present at some of the meetings were the National Security Advisor, Shivshankar Menon, and the Deputy NationalSecurity Advisors, Alok Prasad and Latha Reddy. The meetings were invariably lively and full of argument and constructive critique: the resulting text therefore, should not be seen as one with whose every line all members of the group would agree. Rather than offer bland consensus, we have preferred a document that we hope will prompt further discussion andelaboration. It is the case, however, that all members of the group fully endorse the basic principles and perspectives embodied in NonAlignment 2.0. Indeed, we collectively wish to bring these principles to the attention of our fellow-citizens and to our political leaders, policymakers and opinion shapers, in order that we might arrive at a basic national consensus about India’s strategic priorities and opportunities.
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Related Events
Launch of NonAlignemnt 2.0. At Ashok Hotel, New Delhi (28 February 2012)
Discussion on Nonalignment 2.0. At Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC (12 March 2012)
Session on “Non Alignment: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty First Century”
21 March 2012, WWF Auditorium, New Delhi
Session on “Non Alignment: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty First Century” by Aspen Institute India (21 March 2012) video available:
Comments
NAM and the pitfalls of revisiting it (K Shankar Bajpai)
Under the influence (Sitaram Yechury)
Non-Alignment 2.0 need of the hour (Seema Mustafa)
‘Nonalignment 2.0′: Thinking asymmetrically about China (C Raja Mohan)
Response to ‘Nonalignment 2.0′ — a regressive foreign policy roadmap (Bharat Karnad)
A strategy for India: Nonalignment 2.0? (Ian Hall)
A 21st Century Strategic Policy for India (BG Verghese)
Non-alignment: back to the future? (WPS Sidhu)
China’s rise and India’s obvious partner (the U.S.) (Lisa Curtis)
Use this slowdown to quicken reforms in manufacturing (Gautam Chikermane)
Flashback: Non-alignment 2.0 (Zoraver Daulet Singh)
India needs ‘NonAlignment 2.0’, new policy report says (The Hindu)
Nonalignment 2.0 – Playing ball with the empire (Atul Bhardwaj)
Failure 2.0 (Sadanand Dhume)
India’s foreign & strategic policy (S Nihal Singh)
Is Non-Alignment 2.0 the way to check China and Pak? (R Jagannathan)
Writing Policy in Sand (Rajiv Dogra)
Non-Alignment Rises from Dustbin of History (Tom Wright)
An India allying with none (Shyam Saran)
Delhi’s Strategy Deficit (Sumit Ganguly)
Get real with China on Tibet (Ajai Shukla)
Digging up the ghost of non-alignment (Nayan Chanda)
Indian Grand Strategy: Nonalignment Redux (Rajesh Basrur)
‘Nonalignment 2.0′: Thinking Asymmetrically about China – A Critique (South Asian Idea)
Foreign affairs gone local (Swapan Dasgupta)
Non-Alignment 2.0 (Arjun Subramaniam)
India’s foreign policy requires re-jigging (Shashi Shekhar)
Why we also need an MEA 2.0 (Nalin Mehta)
Rediscovery of non-alignment (Chinmaya R. Gharekhan)
Served by black swans (Ashok Malik)
India Urged Again to Pursue Non-Alignment (Sumit Gaguly)
Exorcising Non-Alignment (Ibn al-Dunya)
Indian grand strategy: nonalignment redux? (Rajesh Basrur)
India should aim to be powerful and set new standards (Sunil Khilnani)
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