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India Examined

Since the BJP came to power in 2014, India has made an ambitious claim about its place in the world. India Examined is DiploPolis's ongoing analysis of that claim — what Indian foreign policy actually delivers, how the world actually sees New Delhi, and what the gap between India's civilisational ambitions and its strategic reality means for the country, the region and the Global South it claims to speak for.

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Analysis

Deep Concern

The BRICS declaration on the Iran war says: deep concern, maximum restraint, no named actors. India authored it as chair. Eleven days earlier India signed the SCO condemnation of US-Israeli strikes. What a chair writes differs from what a signatory signs.