Modi and the Reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy

摘要

Narendra Modi has been the supreme maker of the country's foreign policy since he became Prime Minister in 2014. Other prime ministers, like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, A.B. Vajpayee, too were the sole makers of the country's foreign policy. Institutions like the bureaucracy or legislature did have some role in the making of foreign policy in India, but it is largely the prime minister and the prime minister's office (PMO) that made foreign policy. Incidentally, this is true of other countries as well with parliamentary systems like Britain or Canada. Here too, it is the prime minister and the PMO that make foreign policy. So do presidents in the presidential system, like the ones of France or the US. The Elysee Palace is the nodal point of the formulation and execution of French foreign policy. So is the White House for the US.