Abstract
Classical Kautilyan and modern Nehruvian wisdoms laid the foundation of Indian strategic thinking. While maintaining cooperative interaction with the outside world, New Delhi endeavours to establish its hegemony in South Asia. New Delhi’s closeness with Tel Aviv is an appropriate example of Kautilyan realpolitik model of pleasantly managing of foreign relation beyond the neighbouring nations. In opposition to Pakistan’s counterweighting behaviour, New Delhi preferred to uphold Israel in its mainstream Middle Eastern policy. The mutual geostrategic interests of both India and Israel in Middle East and South Asia forced them to develop multiple areas for strategic cooperation while fighting against their bordering Muslim states. Moreover, the persistently increasing regional hegemonic thrust of Tel Aviv and New Delhi jeopardized the security of both Western and Southern corners of larger Asian region. The anti-Islamic collaboration cemented in racially discriminatory patterns of Hindu-Zionist ideologies leaves serious repercussions for territorially adjoining Islamic states generally, and Pakistan specifically. Islamabad’s counterbalancing role against New Delhi’s offensive South Asian policy along with its non-recognition of Israel’s as a dejure state let India to explicitly pursue Kautilayan model of diplomacy. Indeed, Indo-Israel strategic cooperation would be having impact on the South Asian strategic environment in general and Pakistan in particular.
Keyword(s)
Kautilayan, Politics, South Asia, Security, Strategic Environment