Global power axis is shifting eastwards from the Pacific-Atlantic. India’s future lies in the Indian Ocean region | The Indian Express

Global power axis is shifting eastwards from the Pacific-Atlantic. India’s future lies in the Indian Ocean region | The Indian Express

Written by Ram Madhav |Updated: September 4, 2019 10:12:19 am

The writer is national general secretary, BJP, and director, India Foundation.

Global power axis is shifting eastwards from the Pacific-Atlantic. India’s future lies in the Indian Ocean region

The Indian leadership needs to appreciate the fact that in the emerging multipolar world order, India is a natural leader in the Indian Ocean region. By turning eastwards and focusing on building an Indian Ocean Bloc, it can aspire to rise as a guiding pole for many countries in the region.

The advent of the globalisation era had coincided with significant geo-political development. (Illustration: C R Sasikumar)

Three decades ago, when globalisation was the flavour of the season, a big section in India, comprising the conventional Right and Left, was up in arms against it. The argument, broadly, was that globalisation was a conspiracy hatched by the developed West to take over the emerging markets of the developing world, that included India. Some of us, though we shared the concerns about globalisation, felt that this cannot be the sole argument against it. Our scepticism was based on the evolving global power order at that time.