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India’s rise to power: where does East Africa fit in?Amrita Narlikar 2010
The analysis generates findings on India’s negotiation strategy as a rising power offers as a alternative
to not just the Washington Consensus but also the Beijing Consensus.
India –East Africa: a lens on India’s rise to power
Three key puzzles of Indian foreign policy:
Puzzle 1
there exists confusion on the kind of power that India will evolve into
Raja Mohan’s - more open India, driven primarily by a capitalist ethic, ready to engage with the West,
motivated primarily by strategic considerations and as ready to join in the ‘scramble for Africa’
Stephen Cohen’s - new India that we are likely continues to be a difficult negotiating partner for the
West, not yet ready to abandon its old Third-Worldist principles, a leader of counter-hegemonic
coalitions.
there lies a middle ground. For instance, India may not be willing to abandon its Third-Worldist
alliances just yet, and retained not because of a commitment to some Quixotic idealism but because
they serve a strategic purpose.
Puzzle 2
leadership is the ability and willingness to provide public or club goods, which usually requires a
willingness to bear the costs of agenda-setting and freeriding.
while empowering developing countries by giving them representation and credible voice, they also
make the multilateral trading system deadlock-prone
Understanding the basis of India’s ‘Getting to yes’ policy towards Africa can help us better
understand its ‘Just say no’ diplomacy elsewhere. This points towards a tendency to counter-
hegemonic behaviour with revisionist tones.
Puzzle 3
beyond a rhetorical commitment to democracy, equality, it is not clear what vision India brings as a
rising power.
A study of India’s engagement with East Africa – an area which has seen the engagement of China as
well as the established powers – is further particularly useful to compare the extent to which the
Indian pathway overlaps with the Beijing Consensus or the Washington Consensus, or if it represents
a third way.
If anything, commitment to East Africa may be indicative of an Indian willingness to lead, support
allies, and perhaps an alternative model for development and power.
What continuity and what change? India’s East Africa relations
East Africa constitutes a bigger proportion of Indian imports and exports than the Chinese import –
export basket.
the Indian –African trade pattern appears to be more diversified with ores and metals constituting 61%
of African export shares to India,
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