India should have a New Policy of External Relations

Dr.Rao VBJ Chelikani The Global Risks Report presented before the World Economic Forum at Davos-25 identifies the state-based armed conflict as one of the five risks that require immediate attention. The realpolitik approach of conducting diplomatic or political negotiations with other states is based traditionally on the assumption that each state should pursue "strategic autonomy" to satisfy its own national interests exclusively. That was how marriages were arranged among the royal families in the past. No wonder, the current PO…