INDIA-CHINA AND RUSSIAN FAR EAST (original) (raw)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day Russia visit that concluded today came as business as usual to most of us. This was the first instance of an Indian Prime Minister attending the East Economic Forum. . The forum aims at bringing investment and development to what is known as the Russian Far East, a region extending between Lake Baikal - world's largest freshwater lake and deepest lake, and the Pacific Ocean
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'Narendra Modi's New Religious Diplomacy', International Studies Perspectives (2019).
Narendra Modi has devoted an unusual amount of time and energy, for an Indian leader, to religious diplomacy. It is arguably one of the few innovations that he has made in the conduct of Indian foreign policy. He has visited a series of significant religious sites, engaged in dialogues between religious communities and made a series of appeals to religious arguments, in various diplomatic contexts. This article argues that Modi's religious diplomacy aims to boost India's public diplomacy and soft power, to promote India as a destination for tourists interested in its Buddhist heritage and sites, and an attempt to engage with India's diaspora communities. But it also observes that Modi's religious diplomacy is underpinned by his personal beliefs and his idea of the image that he wants to project of his leadership and what he thinks ought to be India's place in the world to domestic and foreign audiences.
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