Populism and foreign Policy: India towards Israel
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https://doi.org/10.24201/fi.v62i2.2897Keywords:
populism, foreign policy, national role conception, India, Israel, Palestine, international relations, FPAAbstract
In this article, we identify the elements of a populist foreign policy strategy by analyzing the relations between India and Israel since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014. We argue that a foreign policy strategy is populist when: 1) it appeals to the will of the people; 2) it accentuates the confrontation between elites and otherness, and the people in speech; 3) decisions are centralized; it intends to portray congruence between the actions and the national role conception, which legitimizes those decisions. Moreover, we claim that a populist strategy in foreign policy is constructed from complex calculations that must foresee national and international pressures.
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