280: Economic Drivers of India’s External Engagement Strategy
Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow, ISAS
27 April 2015
India’s
Prime Minister
Narendra
Modi’s recent visit to France
,
Germany
and Canada
marked the continuation of a pattern of external engagement that is now becoming
increasingly identifiable by its economic drivers.
In less than a year since assuming office, Mr Modi has travelled to more than a dozen
countries. Most of these
travels
hav
e been state visits
,
occasionally
interspersed
with
multilateral missions (e.g. Brazil and Australia in July and November 2014)
.
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In what
has been a vigorous and robust engagement spanning across continents and regions,
Mr Modi’s travels have generated considerable enthusiasm among
the
host
-
country
administrations, local media and the resident Indian communities