Balancing Status, Security, and Strategy: Unpacking India’s Calculated Ambivalence towards the Quad in the Indo-Pacific

• In Event: Interactions and Context for Independent Powers' Foreign Policy

Brief Overview

This paper investigates India's ambivalence toward the Quad, exploring how it balances US-China rivalry in the Indo-Pacific through external hedging, internal balancing, and the strategic use of its civilizational identity to safeguard its autonomy.

Author

• Navroz Singh, University of Delaware