European Union’s Indo-Pacific Strategy: Policy Implications For India

DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/00195561221098175
Published date01 December 2022
Date01 December 2022
Subject MatterArticles
European Union’s
Indo-Pacific Strategy:
Policy Implications
For India
Vinay Kaura1 and Pratap Singh1
Abstract
With China penetrating markets across the world, its influence over the
European economies has reached an unprecedented level. Though the European
Union (EU) has significant economic presence in many parts of Asia, it has not yet
figured prominently in emerging strategic calculations revolving around the Indo-
Pacific region. However, the increasingly fraught relationship between the United
States and China, coupled with the prospects of slowing global economy, offer
the EU member-states with the opportunity to enhance its agency in shaping the
geoeconomic and geopolitical future of the Indo-Pacific region. The article argues
that the EU is currently undergoing a significant recalibration in its relationship
with an authoritarian China even as it faces the challenge of having to balance
security imperatives with economic interests and, not least, having to contend
with a lack of unity among member-states. The article recommends that the
emergence of the Indo-Pacific construct should prompt both the EU and India in
enhancing their cooperation to realise the collective vision of a democratic, open
and rules-based international order.
Keywords
Geoeconomic, Trump, China, Germany, France, Quad, supply chains
Introduction
While the US–China competition has multiple dimensions—political, military,
diplomatic, and ideological—the heart of the competition is geoeconomic. Though
Article
Indian Journal of Public
Administration
68(4) 542–555, 2022
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1 Department of International Affairs and Security Studies, Sardar Patel University of Police, Security
and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.
Corresponding author:
Vinay Kaura, Department of International Affairs and Security Studies, Sardar Patel University of
Police, Security and Criminal Justice, Jodhpur, Rajasthan 342037, India.
E-mail: vinaykaura76@gmail.com

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