Geopolitics Quarterly

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India's Policy towards Latin America: Development Stages and Future Possibilities

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Muthanna Faiq Merei
College of Political Science, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq.
10.22034/igq.2024.489932.1978
Abstract
Latin America has witnessed radical transformations for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The most important features of the transformations revolve around the orientations of India’s policies. The most important of these differences is the abandonment by most of these countries of the centrality of the ideology of hostility to Western imperialism, and the adoption of an approach based on reforming the global system to serve their interests, and a pragmatism supporting multilateralism (as opposed to non-alignment) to confront multidimensional threats, through multilateralism and building coalitions across ideology, in addition to strategic hedging and resistance to joining alliances under the umbrella of the great powers. This new global environment, and the rise of the influence of the major powers in the global south and their efforts to promote their national interests as a strategic priority, created geopolitical, economic and value complexities for India, which produced an approach to its orientations to compete towards the Latin continent.
Keywords
India
Latin America
leading world
USA

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Geopolitics Quarterly
Volume 21, Issue 2
Summer 2025
Pages 191-218

  • Receive Date 21 November 2024
  • Revise Date 18 December 2024
  • Accept Date 21 December 2024