Emerging Powers and the future of international Balances: India as a case study
publishedAt Thu Aug 01 2024
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world witnessed the emergence of many world powers on the international scene. Where these emerging powers succeeded in breaking Fukuyama's theory in his book The End of the World and the Last Man, which confirmed the inevitable superiority of American liberalism over the world and unipolarity after nearly half a century of conflict between the Soviets and the Americans. The theory of Fukuyama Professor Samuel Huntington who responded to his student in The Clash of Civilizations and Reshaping the World Order in which he referred to a multipolar world is reinforced. With the beginning of the 21st century, American hegemony stopped, as many countries began to witness major transformations at all levels, especially with the rise of eastern countries such as the Chinese dragon and the Indian elephant. It is also important to note the Russian attempts to exploit the Soviet legacy and create the Russian Federation.
New military and economic blocs emerged in the world all threatening American hegemony. Among these emerging powers on the Asian continent, we find India.
India possesses almost all the features that can make it great power, demographically and geographically.
It is also currently considered one of the largest economic powers after it opened its door wide in the nineties to foreign investments after a century of closed policy that brought to it many crises. Although India is a strategic ally of the United States of America in the world,
but America is bothered by this rise. Yet it favors the rise of India at the expense of China, so the United States of America supports India on many levels militarily and economically.
At the same time, India faces many difficulties, especially with its neighbors (China and Pakistan), and the internal situation in India is all ethnic and sectarian conflicts because these conflicts tore Indian geography and could lead to civil war at any moment.
India's rise will not only affect it alone, but will also affect many countries in the world, especially its neighborhoods, which are located in a region of global tension, and its rise will affect international relations in general.
Therefore, during this research, we will present the contributing factors to the rise of India as pillars of strength and the factors that could be an obstacle, and the implications of this for international relations. Therefore, the research question will be, how will the future of international relations be in light of the rise of the Indian elephant as a global power? To answer this question, we will divide it into a set of questions:
How does the rise of new powers on the world stage affect the future of international relations?
What are the pillars of power that enable India to become a global power?
What are the difficulties faced by India in the process of its rise?
How will the rise of the Indian elephant affect international relations?
During this study, we will follow the descriptive analytical method to study and analyze hidden phenomena.
