India and the Global Order

Abstract

The international regimes which create a global order regulate a multitude of actions and relations between states with respect to global public goods. In this context, the rise of the emerging powers like India draws attention to how such countries will navigate the global order in the coming years. Will emerging powers support a liberal order or seek to reinvent the order as they become economically and politically more powerful? This article seeks to examine such issues by looking at the regimes and global order from the prism of a rising India. A robust growing economy has added to India’s economic and political power as it seeks to expand its role within the global order. Socialization and a buy into the current liberal order imply that India will strive to sustain the existing global order since it has benefited from it. Simultaneously, India challenges the rules of the global order by seeking change to the existing status quo in various institutions such as the nuclear non-proliferation regime, which has been examined more specifically in this article. As globalization and interdependence reshape alignments, India’s role and position reflect how it negotiates global regimes and the global order.